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Tom Murphy was raised in Hell's Kitchen, unwanted by his mother, deserted by his father. 35 years on, he is a painter who has abandoned a wife and two children in his turn. He is a damaged man when he meets Joanna, but for a brief time, love seems to be all that matters.
- Sales Rank: #2612819 in Books
- Published on: 1989-04-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 2
- Dimensions: 20.00" h x 20.00" w x 20.00" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 231 pages
From Publishers Weekly
No one writes about the Bohemian New York art and literary scene of the late 1950s and early '60s with more affectionate and rueful insight than Johnson ( Minor Characters ), and this novel, about a doomed love affair with a painter, marks her strongest work so far. A whole era is flawlessly re-created as Joanna, onetime child actress turned Kelly Girl, remembers how she met the boozing, brawling Tom Murphy at a party; they began to live together while he struggled with his painting and his demons. Such characters in novels often become tedious, but here Murphy and Joanna, and their life together, seem to grow so inevitably from their milieu that the book achieves a genuine catharsis. Johnson's narrative tone, in the voice of Joanna, is meticulously maintained: unsentimentally self-aware, wryly observant, accepting without servility. There are wonderful portraits of Greenwich Village characters, with their lofts and odd obsessions. And the scenes with childrenTom's own, by an earlier marriage, and Joanna's son from a later affairhave a transcendent tenderness that is very moving. BOMC and QPBC selections.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
The author of National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Minor Characters ( LJ 1/15/83) has written a love story set in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s whose very lack of profundity makes it special. The brief marriage between narrator Joanna and serious painter Tom Murphy is the center of the story. They aspire to be different, yet the need to earn livings, and Tom's losing his son to a previous wife and his art to drink, brings them the "ordinariness" they'd always sought to avoid. When Tom dies in a random accident, Joanna wanders to Europe, another marriage, and a retrospective of the losses and joys of her life that make up this impressive novel. With one chapter a winner of the O'Henry Award, expect many readers--and deservedly so. BOMC alternate.
- Peter Bricklebank, City Coll., CUNY
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
“In The Night Café is heartbreaking and exhilarating at once. Joyce Johnson has written a memorable love story.” —Hilma Wolitzer
“Almost heartbreakingly evocative, uncommon deftness and restraint. . . . Johnson has a way of characterizing people with a single stroke, allowing us to color in the rest.” —Anne Tyler, Chicago Tribune
“An intense, strong love story, direct and moving . . . An exhilarating experience.” —The Washington Post Book World
“A splendid piece of work, and I read it with great pleasure. The voice of the narrator is so authentic, and her story is told with admirable integrity, restraint, and poignancy.” —Lynne Sharon Schwartz
“The book sails on its first-person narrator: a fiercely believable, testifying voice that is pungent, close to the bone, stinging with candor. Lyrical atmospheric details aside, the poetry of this novel is in its quick psychological insights and the ability to make us shudder and feel along with it.” —Philip Lopate, The New York Times Book Review
“No one writes about the Bohemian New York art and literary scene of the late 1950s and early ’60s with more affectionate and rueful insight than Johnson . . . Very moving.” —Publishers Weekly
“Novelist and Kerouac-memoirist Johnson . . . hits her stride with this bittersweet novel of love and death on the Lower East Side . . . Haunting and evocative.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Lower Manhattan in the days when Idlewild was Idlewild and Kennedy had not been shot seems like a funky-glamorous Parisian-bohemian Camelot and Joyce Johnson is its chronicler. First in her extraordinary memoir . . . Minor Characters, and now in this incandescent novel.” —Phyllis Rose
“As happens now and then, one novel so totally captured my imagination that I keep going back to it. . . . It’s a story of heartbreak, where the heart breaks slowly, a little at a time. Which makes In the Night Café an exquisitely painful—and profoundly moving—novel to read.” —Joyce Maynard, Mademoiselle
“There is a touch here of Jean Rhys and Marguerite Duras . . . but with none of the self-pity of the former or the intellectual dryness of the latter. Johnson keeps an everyday tone in the middle of deep waters. To do so whilst maintaining her balance requires a constant and remarkable artistry.” —The Independent
“The intensity of Joyce Johnson’s imagination lies in the way she looks at the world, in the daring openness she bring to her place and time and the people around her.” —Seven Days
Most helpful customer reviews
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Fantastic read!
By Rachel Langley
I picked this book up at a used bookstore in Brooklyn and had no idea who Joyce Johnson was at the time. It's an amazing tale of love, adventure, alcoholism...you name it, it's in there and it's all woven together in a believable, relatible way. Numerous times I was brought to tears by the the simplicity of emotion stated. Johnson has a gift that stands alone, without her history of JK and the beats.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
a preliminary sketch
By A Customer
Van Gogh did a preliminary drawing for his great painting, The Night Cafe, and this book brings that to mind. It's a sketch for the author's great memoir, Missing Men, which is one of the really important literary documents of the period.
It's a good novel, but fiction is not quite the right medium for this author, so its impact is not as great as the memoir's. Thoreau said somewhere that the most important thing an author has to communicate to a reader is the whole life, the real self, and that is what Missing Men does, in a very effectively understated way. In the novel, she's trying to be imaginative, but it just doesn't have the memoir's ring of truth. She tends to romanticize things in the novel, and they can have the studied "poeticized" attitudes that mar so much contemporary fiction. So I'd class ln the Night Cafe with, say, For Whom the Bell Tolls, whereas I'd class Missing Men with The Great Gatsby.
Reading both the memoir and the novel would be a great assignment for a modern American literature class, by the way.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
but yet was still a good enough read
By Peggy
Wasn't what I was expecting, but yet was still a good enough read. Loved how it goes back in time of New York! After reading this and then looking at the way things are in today's generations, big difference!
*Received for an honest review*
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