Missing Men: A Memoir

ISBN: 0143035231

Author: Johnson, Joyce

Condition: Used

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 Johnsons 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 historys stage. In Missing Men, a memoir that tells her mothers story as well as her own, Johnson constructs an equally unique self-portrait as she examines, from a womans 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 authors adventures as a Broadway stage child to her fateful encounters with the two fatherless artists she marries. Joyce Johnsons voice has never been more compelling.