Author: Johnson, Joyce
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Door Wide Open
Price: $7.98
Publisher: Viking Adult : June 2000
Seller ID: 449341
ISBN-13: 9780670890408
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Very Good
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 t...
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The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac
Price: $9.99
Publisher: Viking Adult : September 2012
Seller ID: 456524
ISBN-13: 9780670025107
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Very Good
Pages unmarked - light discoloration to edges, DJ intact.
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