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Loading... Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958 (2001)by Jack Kerouac, Joyce Johnson (Author)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Unrequited love of a mean drunk mama's boy; interesting, incomplete, unsatisfying. ( ) Full of bitter, desperate, delusional people. If you are a fan of Kerouac or of this time in history, this book is a must read. As however for me, the only part I enjoyed was this brief poem once scribbled on a scrap of paper: Dear Joyce Gone on road, Robert finally woke me up on phone, You are my Angel in a pink slip Jack (Kerouac) (New York City) (early January 1958) (p. 116, ISBN 0670890405) no reviews | add a review
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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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