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Minor Characters
by Joyce Johnson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 0395325137
- ISBN 13
- 9780395325131
- Seller
-
Uncasville, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
first edition first printing hardcover in dust jacket; no prior owner marks; minimal age tone to text pages, small faint stain text block fore-edge; sound binding but slight spine lean; clean 1/4 cloth cover bright gilt titling; dj has no tears, no creases; flap price present biambib
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- DrPanglossBooks
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 919146
- Title
- Minor Characters
- Author
- Joyce Johnson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- ISBN 10
- 0395325137
- ISBN 13
- 9780395325131
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1983
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