Name: Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958
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Author: Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9780141001876

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

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jack Kerouac

Publisher

Penguin Books

Year

2001

Language

English

Pages

182

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0141001879

ISBN13

9780141001876

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

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.

Jack Kerouac

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Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouack, más conocido como Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) es el novelista más destacado y emblemático de la Generación Beat. Su obra narrativa encarnó las experiencias y deseos de libertad de esa generación, espíritu plasmado mayormente en su célebre libro En el camino (1957). Poco después indagó en el budismo, experiencia que da forma a otro de sus libros más famosos: Los vagabundos del Dharma (1958). Además de la narrativa, también escribió poesía. Es reconocido por su prosa espontánea.

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