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Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir by Joyce Johnson

Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir Joyce Johnson ebook
ISBN: 9781440621246
Page: 304
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Format: pdf

Read it for Joyce, not just Jack Penguin (Non-Classics) (July 1, 1999). Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir [Paperback] sample book reviews. I read all of the books by all of the boys and then Johnson became one of my favourite female writers after I read her 1983 memoir, 'Minor Characters' in which she recounted her experiences of being part of the New York literary scene in the 1950s, and at 21, becoming the girlfriend of a then 35-year-old and newly famous Jack Kerouac. Like Minor Characters: a Young Woman's Coming-of-Age in the Beat Orbit of Jack Kerouac ? Joyce Johnson's own book, “Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir,” a minor classic in its own right, continued the look at Jack's love life immediately following his relationship with Helen Weaver. They seemed anti-climatic, for all their fireworks. Joyce Johnson is a memoirist and novelist whose books include the recent Missing Men and the National Book Critics Circle Award–winner Minor Characters, about her relationship with legendary Beat writer Jack Kerouac. Her vivid and insightful memoir, Minor Characters (Houghton & Mifflin, 1983) depicts Beat generation life in full color. And more knowing view of his "narcissism" and other problems -- by Joyce Johnson, who was Kerouac's girlfriend when On the Road was published, and went on to write her own fine Beat memoir, Minor Characters. By the way, I had Joyce Johnson's memoir Minor Characters, in mind when titling this post. Some culmination had been short-circuited. It's about the mostly glossed-over women in the Beat movement. Google searches brought up little more than a name-check. To celebrate, Smithsonian magazine published a personal essay about Kerouac written by his friend Joyce Johnson, author of Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir. In my late teens, like a lot of people do, I got big into the beat generation. In her memoir “Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir,” Joyce Johnson says the following: “The sixties were never quite my time. Theirs are the names primarily associated with the Beat Generation. Join aNobii to see if your friends read it, and discover similar books!