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Jul 05, 2005 | ISBN 9781440626630 Buy
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Jul 05, 2005 | ISBN 9781440626630
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.
Joyce Johnson’s eight books include the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award winner Minor Characters, the recent memoir Missing Men, the novel In the Night Cafe, and Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters 1957-1958 (with Jack Kerouac). She has written for Vanity Fair and The… More about Joyce Johnson
“Perceptive, engaging…. A memoir of easy grace and lively intelligence, filled with striking portraits of individuals, a time, and a place.” —Kirkus Reviews
“A big-hearted, commonsensical, thoroughly adult book.” —The Washington Post
“A memoir to savor, shot through with rueful humor and haunting compassion.” —Phillip Lopate
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