Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir, (Paperback)

from elliottrainbow

I bought this book not knowing what to expect. I knew very little of Joyce Johnson and I guess I thought this book would be a tale of she dated the most famous writer of the Beat Generation and it ...

from the.ken.petersen

A believable, very feminine biography. Jack Kerouac, the great rebel, portrayed as a little lost boy clinging to his mum. This is the story of Joyce Johnson through the years during which she was a...

from TimBazzett

A riveting account of what it was like to be female in the fifties when women were considered secondary kinds of people who existed only to service and wait on the men. I remember trying to read On...

from elliottrainbow

I bought this book not knowing what to expect. I knew very little of Joyce Johnson and I guess I thought this book would be a tale of she dated the most famous writer of the Beat Generation and it ...

from Wassilissa

Die Beat-Generation hat mich immer schon fasziniert. Ich mag den Schreibstil u.a. von Jack Kerouac, dieses melodiöse, rhythmische der Sprache. So dachte ich anfangs bei diesem Buch auch, dass es do...