Minor Characters

Joyce Johnson

London

:

Picador

,

1983

.
First UK Edition.

20cm x 13cm. 237 pages. Pictorial wrappers.

“Girl met boy on a blind date arranged by Allen Ginsberg. It was January 1957. 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.” (rear cover)

Spine creased. Tanning. Minor foxing. Good Condition.