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Minor Characters : A Beat Memoir, Paperback / softback Book

Minor Characters : A Beat Memoir Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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January 1957: girl meets boy on a blind date arranged by Allen Ginsberg.

The girl was Joyce Johnson, the boy Jack Kerouac, and it was nine months before 'On The Road' became a permanent part of the American vocabulary.

But like Robin Hood's and Peter Pan's, Jack's was a boy gang.

Women were minor characters at best, though they risked much more to live as freely as the rebels they loved. Tender, observant and beautifully written, Joyce Johnson's award-winning 'Minor Characters' is both a personal memoir and an unforgettable portrait of that whole, near-mythical, generation: the Beats.

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