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An edition of Minor characters (1983)

Minor characters

a young woman's coming-of-age in the beat orbit of Jack Kerouac

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Joyce Johnson grew up bright and sensitive in Manhattan in the '50s of the cold war and gray flannel suits. "Attracted to decadence," with "little respect for respectability," she had a boundless - and dangerous - belief in the power of love.

For two years, more or less, on and off, she was the girlfriend of Jack Kerouac, during the time that On the Road established him as the guiding light and the spokesman of the Beat Generation. Those years were "an exciting period of my life, a time of enormous hope and energy and the feeling that anything was possible... that four people sitting around a table could change the world." This book is the story of her coming of age.

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Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
265

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Subjects
American Authors, American Women authors, Beat generation, Biography, Relations with women, Social life and customs, Bohemianism, Beats (Persons), Biografie, Biographies, Vie de bohème, Écrivains américains, Erlebnisbericht, Autobiografie, Beatgeneration, Beats (persons), Kerouac, jack, 1922-1969, Women authors, Authors, biography, Johnson, joyce , 1935-, Relations with womenkerouac, jack , 1922-1969, Authors, american, Authors, american--20th century--biography, Beats (persons)--biography, Ps3560.o3795 z47 1999, 818/.5403 b
People
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), Joyce Johnson (1935-)
Places
New York (N.Y.)
Times
20th century

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Minor characters: a young woman's coming-of-age in the beat orbit of Jack Kerouac
1999, Penguin Books
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Minor characters: a young woman's coming-of-age in the beat orbit of Jack Kerouac
1996, Virago
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Minor characters: a young woman's coming-of-age in the beat orbit of Jack Kerouac
1994, Anchor Books
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Minor Characters
November 1, 1990, Washington Square Press
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Minor characters
1983, Houghton Mifflin
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-265).
"Introduction by Ann Douglas"--Cover.
Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1983.

Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
818/.5403, B
Library of Congress
PS3560.O3795 Z47 1999, PS3560.O3795Z47 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxv, 265 p. ;
Number of pages
265

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Open Library
OL118373M
Internet Archive
minorcharactersy0000john
ISBN 10
0140283579
LCCN
99462665
Library Thing
67916
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94945

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