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

Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780141001876)

Author: Jack Kerouac
Product Type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958 by Kerouac, Jack

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

$24.00
Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958 by Kerouac, Jack

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

$24.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Jack Kerouac, Joyce Johnson
ISBN-10: 0141001879
ISBN-13: 9780141001876
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2001
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.74h x 5.07w x 0.62d
By Jack Kerouac
By Jack Kerouac
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Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. His first novel, The Town and the City, appeared in 1950, but it was On the Road, published in 1957 and memorializing his adventures with Neal Cassady, that epitomized to the world what became known as the "Beat generation" and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time. Publication of many other books followed, among them The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, and Big Sur. Kerouac considered all of his autobiographical fiction to be part of "one vast book," The Duluoz Legend. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven.

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