Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin College Div. S 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Joyce Glassman was 21 when she met Jack Kerouac on a blind date in Greenwich Village arranged by Allen Ginsberg, in 1957.In this remarkable memoir, Joyce remembers her years with Jack Kerouac. This is a book about being young & brave & hungry for life & adventure, remembering a time, a place, & men & women who would become famous as the Beat Generation. Book is "like New" no names or markings, pictorial jacket is fine, price is clipped, 262 clean, crisp & solid pp, includes Acknowledgments, short Author biographical sketch, Excellent Personal / or very possible GIFT cpy. FASCINATING READ! . Like New. Hardcover. 1983.

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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: Julie's Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 029017
Title: Minor Characters
Author: Johnson, Joyce
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: New Like New
Jacket Condition: Fine
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0395325137
ISBN 13: 9780395325131
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Div
Place of Publication: Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1983
Keywords: JOHNSON, JOYCE, 1935-BIOGRAPHY-KEROUAC JACK, 1922 1969-BIOGRAPHY-BOHEMIANISM-UNITED STATES- BEAT-GREENWICH VILLAGE, 1957-GINSBERG, ALLEN-POETS (UNITED STATES)-BOHEMIAN STYLE-EXPRESSO BARS-NEW YORK CITY-JOHNSON, JOYCE-MEMOIRS-KEROUAC, JACK-BEAT GENERATION-
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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