- American Authors, American Women authors, Beat generation, Biography
Joyce Johnson grew up bright and sensitive in Manhattan in the '50s of the cold war and gray flannel suits. "Attracted to decadence," with "little respect for respectability," she had a boundless - and dangerous - belief in the power of love.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and nostalgic.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Joyce Johnson
- First published
- 1983
- Pages
- 262
- Publisher
- Washington Square Press, Penguin Books, Virago
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781860491832
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