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

By Joyce Johnson , Jack Kerouac

Book information

Publisher
Penguin
Year
2001
ISBN
0670890405, 0141001879, 9780141001876, 9780670890408
LCC
PS3568.O243
Open Library ID
OL7357981M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9656064 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
212\212
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2024-10-26 00:57:29

Description

On a blind date in Greenwich Village set up by Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac met Joyce Glassman. This unique book, containing the many letters the two of them wrote to each other whenever Jack was in transit, reveals a surprising side of Kerouac - his capacity for forming a tender bond with a woman who shared his passion for writing. It also gives us a vivid and immediate picture from the female perspective of what it took to be young and Beat in the Cold War fifties, to participate in the formation of a defiant new bohemia in downtown Manhattan, and to fall deeply in love with a man who "could behave unforgivably but whom you would ultimately have to forgive." --Back cover.

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