Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958 by Joyce Johnson, Jack Kerouac

Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958



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Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958 Joyce Johnson, Jack Kerouac
Page: 208
ISBN: 9780141001876
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

On a blind date in Greenwich Village set up by Allen Ginsberg, Joyce Johnson (then Joyce Glassman) met Jack Kerouac in January 1957, nine months before he became famous overnight with the publication of On the Road. She was an adventurous, independent-minded twenty-one-year-old; Kerouac was already running on empty at thirty-five. This unique book, containing the many letters the two of them wrote to each other, reveals a surprisingly tender side of Kerouac. It also shares the vivid and unusual perspective of what it meant to be young, Beat, and a woman in the Cold War fifties. Reflecting on those tumultuous years, Johnson seamlessly interweaves letters and commentary, bringing to life ... MORE EBOOKS:
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