Missing Men by Joyce Johnson
From the author of Minor Characters, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award - an intricate and compelling (O, The Oprah Magazine) memoir that chronicles her childhood and her two ill-fated marriagesJoyce Johnson's classic memoir of growing up female in the 1950s, Minor Characters, was one of the initiators of an important new genre: the personal story of a minor player on history's stage. In Missing Men, a memoir that tells her mother's story as well as her own, Johnson constructs an equally unique self-portrait as she examines, from a woman's perspective, the far-reaching reverberations of fatherlessness. Telling a story that has shaped itself around absences, Missing Men presents us with the arc and flavor of a unique New York life--from the author's adventures as a Broadway stage child to her fateful encounters with the two fatherless artists she marries. Joyce Johnson's voice has never been more compelling.
Minor Characters, the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award winner, the memoir Missing Men, the novel In the Night Café, and Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters 1957-1958 (with Jack Kerouac) are among Joyce Johnson's eight novels. She lives in New York City and has written for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780670033102 |
| ISBN 10 | 0670033103 |
| Title | Missing Men |
| Author | Joyce Johnson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2004-04-26 |
| Number of pages | 276 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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