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Hjortsberg, William, 1941-
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Brautigan, Richard
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Suicide victims -- Biography.
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Hjortsberg, William, 1941-
Brautigan, Richard
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Suicide victims -- Biography.
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Jubilee hitchhiker : the
life
and
times
of
Richard
Brautigan
/ William Hjortsberg.
by
Hjortsberg, William, 1941-
Counterpoint, c2012.
Call #:
921 B825h
Subjects
Brautigan
,
Richard
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Suicide victims -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781582437903 (hc.)
1582437904 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Life
and
times
of
Richard
Brautigan
.
Description:
852 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Notes:
Errata sheet (extension of the copyright page) inserted.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [813]-829) and index.
Contents:
Part One : Flowerburger. John Doe number 9 -- Honor thy father -- American dust -- Tacoma ghosts -- Dick Porterfield -- Midnight driver's ed -- Pounding at the gates of American literature -- White wooden angel of love -- The rub of a strange cat -- Family album -- Reno -- Frisco -- On the beach -- Ginger -- The general -- Scorpio rising -- Scaling Mount Parnassus -- Gone fishing -- The fastest car on earth -- O, tannenbob -- Moosemelon -- Aborted dreams -- The museum -- The emperor's new clothes -- Digger daze -- Rx : Dr. Leary -- Banzai -- Bread and circuses -- Willard -- Brief encounter -- Summer of love.
Part Two : Bushido Gunslinger. Hitching a ride -- Ten day barons -- The great public library publishing caper -- Cover girls -- Satori -- Fame's feathery crowbar -- Iit crit -- My home's in Montana -- Over easy -- The five-year plan -- Stockholm -- Throwing a hoolihan -- Kids -- Tokyo throes -- The paradise valley ladies' book club luncheon -- Aki -- Rattrap roulette -- Banned in the boondocks -- Rashomon -- Trouble and strife -- R.i.p. -- Midnight express -- Shinola -- Blowing in the wind -- Deathgrowth -- The itch -- The pitch -- The end.
Summary:
"A comprehensive biography of late novelist and poet
Richard
Brautigan
, author of Troutfishing in America and A Confederate General from Big Sur, among many others. When
Brautigan
took his own
life
in September of 1984 his close friends and network of artists and writers were devastated though not entirely surprised. To many,
Brautigan
was shrouded in enigma, erratic and unpredictable in his habits and presentation. But his career was formidable, an inspiration to young writers like William Hjortsberg trying to get their start. Brautigan’s career wove its way through both the Beat-influenced San Francisco Renaissance in the 1950s and the "Flower Power" hippie movement of the 1960s; while he never claimed direct artistic involvement with either period, Jubilee Hitchhiker also delves deeply into the spirited
times
in which he lived. As Hjortsberg guides us through his search to uncover
Brautigan
as a man the reader is pulled deeply into the writer’s world. Ultimately this is a work that seeks to connect the
Brautigan
known to his fans with the man who ended his
life
so abruptly in 1984 while revealing the close ties between his writing and the actual events of his
life
. Part history, part biography, and part memoir, Jubilee Hitchhiker etches the portrait of a man destroyed by his genius."--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Biographies.
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Woodlawn Public Library
Adult Biography
921 B825h
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