Minor Characters
by Johnson, Joyce
Jack Kerouac. Allen Ginsberg. William S. Burroughs. LeRoi Jones. Theirs are the names primarily associated with the Beat Generation. But what about Joyce Johnson (nee Glassman), Edie Parker, Elise Cowen, Diane Di Prima, and dozens of others? These female friends and lovers of the famous iconoclasts are now beginning to be recognized for their own roles in forging the Beat movement and for their daring attempts to live as freely as did the men in their circle a decade before Women's Liberation. Twenty-one-year-old Joyce Johnson, an aspiring novelist and a secretary at a New York literary agency, fell in love with Jack Kerouac on a blind date arranged by Allen Ginsberg nine months before the publication of On the Road made Kerouac an instant celebrity. While Kerouac traveled to Tangiers, San Francisco, and Mexico City, Johnson roamed the streets of the East Village, where she found herself in the midst of the cultural revolution the Beats had created. Minor Characters portrays the turbulent years of her relationship with Kerouac with extraordinary wit and love and a cool, critical eye, introducing the reader to a lesser known but purely original American voice: her own.
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Minor Characters : A Memoir of a Young Woman of the 1950's in the Beat Orbit of Jack Kerouac
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Minor Characters : A Beat Memoir
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MINOR CHARACTERS.
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Anchor Books:, 1994. 262 pages. "More than ust chronicling the drama of her life with Kerouac, Joyce Glassman Johnson describes the roles that she and other women in her circle played as companions and acolytes to their male muses, women who set aside their one needs and ambitions." VERY GOOD+ SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾"… Read more about this item Item Price
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. Octavo, 262 pages. Mustard-colored boards with gold lettering on spine. Very light foxing on edges. Firm binding; no loose pages. Dust jacket with some small chips and tears, now encased in a clear protective cover. Item Price
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983. First Edition. Octavo, black cloth & orange boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 262 pp. Near-Fine, with slight soiling to page edges; in a Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: Joyce Glassman was twenty-one years old when she met Jack Kerouac on a blind date in Greenwich Village arranged by… Read more about this item Item Price
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