Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958 Paperback - 2001
by Kerouac, Jack; Johnson, Joyce
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
"Door Wide Open" is a moving collection of love letters between two major figures of the Beat generation. Reflecting upon these tumultuous years, Johnson seamlessly interweaves letters and commentary, making the story of her affair with Kerouac as compelling as an epistolary novel.
Description
NZ$10.80
FREE Shipping to USA
Standard delivery: 4 to 8 days
More Shipping Options
Ships from ThriftBooks (Washington, United States)
Details
- Title Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958
- Author Kerouac, Jack; Johnson, Joyce
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Printing -
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
- Date 2001
- Features Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0141001879I3N00
- ISBN 9780141001876 / 0141001879
- Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 7.74 x 5.07 x 0.62 in (19.66 x 12.88 x 1.57 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
-
Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 990053219
- Dewey Decimal Code B
About ThriftBooks Washington, United States
Biblio member since 2018
From the largest selection of used titles, we put quality, affordable books into the hands of readers
Summary
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.
From the publisher
First line
THE NIGHT OF OUR BLIND DATE in January 1957, Jack couldn't even afford to buy me a cup of coffee-his last twenty had vanished earlier that day when he'd bought a pack of cigarettes and received change for a five-so I treated him to a hot dog and baked beans at Howard Johnson's.
