{"product_id":"bad-connections-paperback","title":"Bad Connections - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoyce Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eMinor Characters\u003c\/i\u003e writes with delicious transparency about a love that cannot be harnessed and a woman who refuses to be deceived\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the great wave of husband-leaving ushered in by the Sexual Revolution, Molly Held frees herself from her cold, flagrantly unfaithful husband after their final quarrel turns violent. With her five-year-old son, she lights out for an Upper West Side apartment and the new life she hopes to find with Conrad Schwartzberg--the charismatic radical lawyer who has recently become her lover. Having escaped from a desert, she lands in a swamp. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile Conrad radiates positive energy, he is unable to tell Molly--or anyone who loves him--the truth. No longer the wronged wife, Molly now finds herself the Other Woman. She is sharing Conrad with Roberta, another refugee from marriage--with Conrad's movements between the two of them disguised by his suspiciously frequent out-of-own engagements. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRoberta either knows nothing or prefers to look the other way, but Molly's maddening capacity for double vision takes over her mind. What saves her from herself is her well-developed sense of irony, which never fails her--or the reader. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoyce Johnson was born in 1935 in New York City, the setting for all her fiction: \u003ci\u003eCome and Join the Dance\u003c\/i\u003e, recognized as the first Beat novel by a woman writer, \u003ci\u003eBad Connections\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIn the Night Café\u003c\/i\u003e. She is best known for her memoir \u003ci\u003eMinor Characters\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1983 and dealt with coming of age in the 1950s and with her involvement with Jack Kerouac. She has published two other Beat-related books: \u003ci\u003eDoor Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac\u003c\/i\u003e. She has also written a second memoir, \u003ci\u003eMissing Men, \u003c\/i\u003eand the nonfiction title \u003ci\u003eWhat Lisa Knew: The Truths and Lies of the Steinberg Case\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 17, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42691299770431,"sku":"9781480481251","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/7ac703d16d94f192e75931a7217cc5f3.webp?v=1764991646","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/bad-connections-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}