Door Wide Open
A Beat Love Affair in Letters 1957-1958
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Word Count
52,000 words, Guess
Page Count
208 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivedoorwideopen00joyc
- ISBN-100141001879
- ISBN-139780141001876
- Goodreads10462
- OCLC Control Number47095757
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780141001876
- Open LibraryOL7357981M
Classifications
- LCCPS3568.O243
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.""--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
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.
Subjects
Other Editions
- Door Wide Open
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