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" - 9¾" tall.

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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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Bookseller: PASCALE'S BOOKS (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 031380
Title: MINOR CHARACTERS.
Author: Johnson Joyce
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+
ISBN 10: 0385475306
ISBN 13: 9780385475303
Publisher: Anchor Books:
Place of Publication: New York, New York, U.s.a.
Date Published: 1994
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Keywords: Beat Generation, Joyce Glassman, Jack Kerouac, Isbn: 0-385-47530-6
Bookseller catalogs: Sociology;

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