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

by Joyce Johnson

Other authorsJack Kerouac (Author)
Paperback, 2001

Library's rating

½

Status

Available

Call number

2.kerouac

Publication

Penguin (Non-Classics) (2001), Paperback, 208 pages

User reviews

LibraryThing member noneofthis
Full of bitter, desperate, delusional people. If you are a fan of Kerouac or of this time in history, this book is a must read. As however for me, the only part I enjoyed was this brief poem once scribbled on a scrap of paper:

Dear Joyce
Gone
on
road,
Robert
finally
woke
me
up
on
phone,
You
are
my
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Angel
in
a
pink
slip

Jack (Kerouac)
(New York City)
(early January 1958)

(p. 116, ISBN 0670890405)
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Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

2001

Physical description

208 p.; 7.74 inches

ISBN

0141001879 / 9780141001876
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