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Jubilee hitchhiker : the life and times of Richard Brautigan / William Hjortsberg.

by Hjortsberg, William, 1941-

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Counterpoint, c2012.

Brautigan, Richard

Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography

Suicide victims -- Biography.

9781582437903 (hc.)

1582437904 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Life and times of Richard Brautigan.

852 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.

Errata sheet (extension of the copyright page) inserted.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [813]-829) and index.

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.

"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.

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