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Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters 1957-1958
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Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters 1957-1958 (2000) (edit title/settings)

by Jack Kerouac (Author), Joyce Johnson (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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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.

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  1. Jack Kerouac (Author)
  2. Joyce Johnson

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Viking
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Publication Date: 2000
ISBN: 0670890405
Page Count: 182

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