Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir - Softcover

Johnson, Joyce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0413777154 ISBN 13: 9780413777157

Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

A Beat Memoir. Astonishing insider account of the Beat generation by Jack Kerouacs lover and probably the best book ever written about the Beats.

About this title

Review:

"'This is the muses's side of the story, it turns out the muse could write as well as anybody.' Angela Carter 'Rich and beautifully written, full of vivid portraits and evocations... of the major beat voices and the minor characters, their women.' San Francisco Chronicle 'Minor Characters is an avowedly nostalgic portrait that captures the excitement, the strangeness and the often mis-directed and destructive energy of those lost days,' The Philadelphia Inquirer 'Realistic rather than flamboyant, [Johnson] succeeds in portraying the Beats not as oddities or celebrities but as individuals.' The New Yorker"

About the Author:

Joyce Johnson is the author of three novels: In the Night Cafe, Bad Connections, and Come and Join the Dance. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Harper's, The New York Times Magazine and New York. She is the winner of the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award, first prize in the 1987 O. Henry Awards, and a 1992 NEA fellowship. She has taught creative writing for many years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0413777154
• ISBN 13: 9780413777157
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 288