- Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969, Love-letters, Beats (persons), Correspondence
"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.
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Character-led, earnest, grave and nostalgic.
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Joyce Johnson, Jack Kerouac
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 195
- Publisher
- Penguin (Non-Classics), Viking
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780670890408
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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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