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Minor Characters: a Young Woman's Coming-of-Age in the Beat Orbit of Jack Kerouac by Joyce Johnson (Paperback, 1999)

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Among the great American literary memoirs of the past century. . .a riveting portrait of an era. . .Johnson captures this period with deep clarity and moving insight. - Dwight Garner, The New York Times In 1954, Joyce Johnson's Barnard professor told his class that most women could never have the kinds of experiences that would be worth writing about. Attitudes like that were t at all unusual at a time when good women didn't leave home or have sex before they married; even those who broke the rules could merely expect to be mir characters in the dramas played by men. But secret rebels, like Joyce and her classmate Elise Cowen, refused to accept things as they were. As a teenager, Johnson stole down to Greenwich Village to sing folksongs in Washington Square. She was 21 and had started her first vel when Allen Ginsberg introduced her to Jack Kerouac; nine months later she was with Kerouac when the publication of On the Road made him famous overnight. Joyce had longed to go on the road with him; instead she got a front seat at a cultural revolution under attack from all sides; made new friends like Hettie and LeRoi Jones, and found herself fighting to keep the shy, charismatic, tormented Kerouac from destroying himself. It was a woman's adventure and a fast education in life. What Johnson and other Beat Generation women would discover were the risks, the heartache and the heady excitement of trying to live as freely as the rebels they loved.

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Penguin Putnam Inc
ISBN-10
0140283579
ISBN-13
9780140283570
eBay Product ID (ePID)
182859464

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Author
Joyce Johnson
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Biography: General

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Place of Publication
New York, NY
Author Biography
Joyce Johnson's eight books include the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award winner Minor Characters, the recent memoir Missing Men, the novel In the Night Cafe, and Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters 1957-1958 (with Jack Kerouac). She has written for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker and lives in New York City.
Out-Of-Print Date
11/08/2009
Date of Publication
30/09/1999
Edition Statement
Open Market Ed
Country of Publication
United States

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