Missing Men: A Memoir - Hardcover

Johnson, Joyce

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670033103 ISBN 13: 9780670033102

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2004

Synopsis

A new memoir by the author of Minor Characters provides a unique female perspective on the dramatic implications of growing up fatherless, from her birth, childhood, and youth without a male figure in her life, through her unsuccessful marriages to two fatherless artists, to her adventures as a stage child managed by her mother, to own evolution into an artist in her own right. 20,000 first printing.

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: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0670033103
• ISBN 13: 9780670033102
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288