ISBN 9780141001876 | 0141001879 Textbooks - "Door Wide Open A Beat Love Affair in Letters 1957&1958" by Johnson Joyce Johnson Jack Kerouac Joyce Jack Kerouac Jack Johnson

Authors: Johnson - Joyce Johnson - Jack Kerouac - Joyce - Jack - Kerouac - Jack; Johnson
ISBN 10: 0141001879
ISBN 13: 9780141001876
Release: June 1, 2001
Format: Paperback (208 pages)
List Price: $15.00
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Tags: Biographies & Memoirs, Memoirs,

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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 her love affair with one of American letters' most fascinating and enigmatic figures.

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