Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir pdf

Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir by Joyce Johnson

Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir Joyce Johnson ebook
Page: 304
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
ISBN: 9781440621246
Format: pdf

Her personal relationship with Kerouac, the subject of her 1983 memoir Minor Characters, seems to color her accounts with a tinge of sincerity and insight that comes from genuine interactions. Like Minor Characters: a Young Woman's Coming-of-Age in the Beat Orbit of Jack Kerouac ? Join aNobii to see if your friends read it, and discover similar books! However, her novel, Afoot in in a Field of Men, was accepted by Atlantic Monthly Press by Joyce Johnson, formerly associated with Jack K and author of “Minor Characters”. Joyce Johnson's new biography of Beat writer Jack Kerouac vies for room on a crowded shelf. She was dating Jack Kerouac when On the Road hit the bestseller lists in 1957 (chronicled in her book, Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir). That featured Andy Warhol's Couch cover. Cowen would not be properly named and remembered as an important figure of the Beat Generation until Joyce Johnson's memoir Minor Characters. The best and most evocative book, Johnson's “Minor Characters,” set the high bar for a history of the women of the Beat era. Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir by Joyce Johnson is such a delightful surprise that I'm disappointed it took me so long to get around to reading it. At least one salacious study posits Kerouac as a cad, pushing the women into misguided behavior. No fewer than seven memoirs by women married to or connected with the central men informed Rivera's script. Joyce Johnson is a memoirist and novelist whose books include the recent Missing Men and the National Book Critics Circle Award–winner Minor Characters, about her relationship with legendary Beat writer Jack Kerouac. In her memoir Minor Characters, Beat writer Joyce Johnson explains how the media representation quickly shifted to a marketing one. Thus the sharp irony with which Joyce Johnson titles her memoir of life as a female member of the Beat circle, Minor Characters, is terribly apt. Sanders misspelled her last name as Cowan. Banking on the marketability of Kerouac's name or with personal axes to grind, wives Edie Parker and Joan Haverty wrote books. According to Joyce Johnson, American author and Kerouac's ex-lover, in her book Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (1983), Jack Kerouac tried desperately to replace Gerard in his mother's eyes. Not to mention memoirs, an oral history – the excellent “Jack's Book” (1978) — and wider surveys of the Beat Generation. Women of the Beat weren't afraid to get dirty.