description: Set in the 1950s, against a backdrop of downtown New York, the story of a young teenager and her search for real life begins. Leaving her suburban middle-class parents, she escapes downtown to enjoy a modern freedom that leads her to Jack Kerouac.
language: English
title: Minor Characters
titlecomplete: Minor Characters
characters: Joyce Johnson, Jack Kerouac
genres: New York, Feminism, History, Biography Memoir, Biography, Literature, Memoir, Poetry, Nonfiction, Womens
ratings_count: 2422
places: New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Biography/Autobiography
publisher: Methuen