Minor characters
a young woman's coming-of-age in the beat orbit of Jack Kerouac
by Joyce Johnson
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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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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
in English
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Minor characters: a young woman's coming-of-age in the beat orbit of Jack Kerouac
1994, Anchor Books
in English
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0385475306 9780385475303
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Minor Characters
November 1, 1990, Washington Square Press
Paperback
in English
0671727907 9780671727901
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-265).
"Introduction by Ann Douglas"--Cover.
Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1983.
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