Missing Men: A Memoir - Softcover

Johnson, Joyce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143035231 ISBN 13: 9780143035237

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2005

Synopsis

From the author of Minor Characters, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award - an "intricate and compelling" (O, The Oprah Magazine) memoir that chronicles her childhood and her two ill-fated marriages

Joyce Johnson's classic memoir of growing up female in the 1950s, Minor Characters, was one of the initiators of an important new genre: the personal story of a minor player on history's stage. In Missing Men, a memoir that tells her mother's story as well as her own, Johnson constructs an equally unique self-portrait as she examines, from a woman's perspective, the far-reaching reverberations of fatherlessness. Telling a story that has "shaped itself around absences," Missing Men presents us with the arc and flavor of a unique New York life--from the author's adventures as a Broadway stage child to her fateful encounters with the two fatherless artists she marries. Joyce Johnson's voice has never been more compelling.

About this title

Review:

"Perceptive, engaging.... A memoir of easy grace and lively intelligence, filled with striking portraits of individuals, a time, and a place." --Kirkus Reviews

"A big-hearted, commonsensical, thoroughly adult book." --The Washington Post

"A memoir to savor, shot through with rueful humor and haunting compassion." --Phillip Lopate

About the Author:

Joyce Johnson is the author of three novels, including The Night Café. Her other books include Minor Characters, which was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0143035231
• ISBN 13: 9780143035237
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276