{"product_id":"minor-characters","title":"Minor Characters","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eMinor Characters\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJoyce Johnson\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e0395325137\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eHoughton Mifflin\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1983\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eModerate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eJack Kerouac. Allen Ginsberg. William S. Burroughs. LeRoi Jones. Theirs are the names primarily associated with the Beat Generation. But what about Joyce Johnson (nee Glassman), Edie Parker, Elise Cowen, Diane Di Prima, and dozens of others? These female friends and lovers of the famous iconoclasts are now beginning to be recognized for their own roles in forging the Beat movement and for their daring attempts to live as freely as did the men in their circle a decade before Women's Liberation. Twenty-one-year-old Joyce Johnson, an aspiring novelist and a secretary at a New York literary agency, fell in love with Jack Kerouac on a blind date arranged by Allen Ginsberg nine months before the publication of On the Road made Kerouac an instant celebrity. While Kerouac traveled to Tangiers, San Francisco, and Mexico City, Johnson roamed the streets of the East Village, where she found herself in the midst of the cultural revolution the Beats had created. Minor Characters portrays the turbulent years of her relationship with Kerouac with extraordinary wit and love and a cool, critical eye, introducing the reader to a lesser known but purely original American voice: her own.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin","offers":[{"title":"Minor Characters | Joyce Johnson | Hardcover | 0395325137 | Used: Good | Memoir 1691205","offer_id":48700334899352,"sku":"1691205","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/51OE8jBoEVL.jpg?v=1773771531","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/minor-characters","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}