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By Joyce Johnson

Subjects: Women authors, Erlebnisbericht, Kerouac, jack, 1922-1969, Autobiografie, Biography, Écrivains américains, Ps3560.o3795 z47 1999, American Authors, Beats (persons)--biography, Relations with womenkerouac, jack , 1922-1969, Biographies, Authors, american, Authors, biography, Relations with women, 818/.5403 b, Beat generation, Biografie, Beats (Persons), Authors, american--20th century--biography, Beatgeneration, Social life and customs, Bohemianism, American Women authors, Beats (persons), Johnson, joyce , 1935-, Vie de bohème

Description: 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. For two years, more or less, on and off, she was the girlfriend of Jack Kerouac, during the time that *On the Road* established him as the guiding light and the spokesman of the Beat Generation. Those years were "an exciting period of my life, a time of enormous hope and energy and the feeling that anything was possible... that four people sitting around a table could change the world." This book is the story of her coming of age.