![]() ![]() While Kerouac traveled to Tangiers, San Francisco, and Mexico City, Johnson roamed the streets of the East. Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir by Joyce Johnson 2,265 ratings, 4.06 average rating, 190 reviews Minor Characters Quotes Showing 1-4 of 4 I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves. ![]() 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. 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. ![]() ![]() Theirs are the names primarily associated with the Beat Generation. NAMED ONE THE 50 BEST MEMOIRS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS BY 'THE NEW YORK TIMES'WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDJack Kerouac. Download Or Read PDF Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir Free Full Pages Online With Audiobook. ![]()
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