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Author Hjortsberg, William, 1941-

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

Publication Info. Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, [2012]
©2012

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  PS3503.R2736 Z69 2012    Available  ---
Description 852 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Note Errata sheet (extension of the copyright page) inserted.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 813-829) and index.
Summary A biography of the author of "Trout fishing in America" and "A Confederate general from Big Sur" portrays his career from life among the Beats in 1950s San Francisco to the hippies in the 1960s to his abrupt suicide in 1984.
Contents Machine generated contents note: pt. One flowerburger -- one.john doe number 9 -- two.honor thy father -- three.american dust -- four.bacoma ghosbs -- five.dick porterfield -- six.midnight driver's ed -- seven.pounding at the gates of american literature -- eight.white wooden angel of love -- nine.the rub of a strange cat -- ten.family album -- eleven.reno -- twelve.frisco -- thirteen.on the beach -- fourteen.ginger -- fifteen.the general -- sixteen.scorpio rising -- seventeen.scaling mount parnassus -- eighteen.gone fishing -- nineteen.the fastest car on earth -- twenty.o, tannenbob -- twenty-one.moosemelon -- twenty-two.aborted dreams -- twenty-three.the museum -- twenty-four.the emperor's new clothes -- twenty-five.digger daze -- twenty-six.rx: dr. leary -- twenty-seven.banzal -- twenty-eight.bread and circuses -- twenty-nine.willard -- thirty.brief encounter -- thirty-one.summer of love -- pt. two bushido gunslinger -- thirty-two.hitching a ride -- thirty-three.ten day barons -- thirty-four.the great public library publishing caper -- thirty-five.cover girls -- thirty-six.satori -- thirty-seven.fame's feathery crowbar -- thirty-eight.lit crib -- thirty-nine.my home's in montana -- forty.over easy -- forty-one.the five-year plan -- forty-two.stockholm -- forty-three.throwing a hoolihan -- forty-four.kids -- forty-five.tokyo throes -- forty-six.the paradise valley ladies' book club luncheon -- forty-seven.aki -- forty-eight.rattrap roulebbe -- forty-nine.banned in the boondocks -- fifty.rashomon -- fifty-one.trouble and strife -- fifty-two.r.i.p. -- fifty-three.midnight express -- fifty-four.shinola -- fifty-five.blowing in the wind -- fifty-six.deathgrowth -- fifty-seven.the itch -- fifty-eight.the pitch.
Subject Brautigan, Richard.
Brautigan, Richard.
Novelists, American -- California -- 20th century -- Biography.
Novelists, American.
California.
Chronological Term 20th century
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Suicide victims -- California -- Biography.
Suicide victims.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Added Title Life and times of Richard Brautigan
ISBN 9781582437903
1582437904