{"product_id":"minor-characters-a-beat-memoir-paperback","title":"Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoyce Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAnne Douglas\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed one of the 50 best memoirs of the past 50 years by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Among the great American literary memoirs of the past century . . . a riveting portrait of an era . . . Johnson captures this period with deep clarity and moving insight.\" - Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1954, Joyce Johnson's Barnard professor told his class that most women could never have the kinds of experiences that would be worth writing about. Attitudes like that were not at all unusual at a time when \"good\" women didn't leave home or have sex before they married; even those who broke the rules could merely expect to be minor characters in the dramas played by men. But secret rebels, like Joyce and her classmate Elise Cowen, refused to accept things as they were. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As a teenager, Johnson stole down to Greenwich Village to sing folksongs in Washington Square. She was 21 and had started her first novel when Allen Ginsberg introduced her to Jack Kerouac; nine months later she was with Kerouac when the publication of \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e made him famous overnight. Joyce had longed to go on the road with him; instead she got a front seat at a cultural revolution under attack from all sides; made new friends like Hettie and LeRoi Jones, and found herself fighting to keep the shy, charismatic, tormented Kerouac from destroying himself. It was a woman's adventure and a fast education in life. What Johnson and other Beat Generation women would discover were the risks, the heartache and the heady excitement of trying to live as freely as the rebels they loved.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoyce Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e's eight books include the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award winner\u003ci\u003e Minor Characters\u003c\/i\u003e, the recent memoir \u003ci\u003eMissing Men\u003c\/i\u003e, the novel \u003ci\u003eIn the Night Cafe\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDoor Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters 1957-1958\u003c\/i\u003e (with Jack Kerouac). She has written for\u003ci\u003e Vanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 7.74 x 5.01 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Book Critics Circle Award (1983)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44441289261158,"sku":"9780140283570","price":35.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/SVlta25uUTJ5Nnd3N0N2TUpkYmcyZz09.webp?v=1770562260","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/minor-characters-a-beat-memoir-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}