Houghton Mifflin, 1983. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" In pictorial jacket, 8vo, 262pp. (light shelfwear to outer extremities).

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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: Vashon Island Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 0849630
Title: Minor Characters
Author: Joyce Johnson
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
ISBN 10: 0395325137
ISBN 13: 9780395325131
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1983
Keywords: Minor Characters

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