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

Autor Jack Kerouac, Joyce Johnson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mai 2001 – vârsta de la 18 ani
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141001876
ISBN-10: 0141001879
Pagini: 182
Dimensiuni: 129 x 197 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Penguin Books

Recenzii

Wonderful...conveys Johnson's own growth as a woman and writer in the 1950s, absorbing Kerouac's remarkable freedom. &#8212The New York Times Book Review

Notă biografică

Jack Kerouac(1922-1969), the central figure of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 and died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. Among his many novels are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Visions of Cody.
Joyce Johnson is the author of three novels, including The Night Café. Her other books include Minor Characters, which was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957ߝ1958.
Joyce Johnson is the author of three novels, including The Night Café. Her other books include Minor Characters, which was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957ߝ1958.
Joyce Johnson is the author of three novels, including The Night Café. Her other books include Minor Characters, which was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957ߝ1958.

Descriere

"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.