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Jubilee hitchhiker : the life and times of Richard Brautigan
- Title
- Jubilee hitchhiker : the life and times of Richard Brautigan / William Hjortsberg.
- Author
- Hjortsberg, William, 1941-
- Publication
- Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, c2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFF 12-862 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 852 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 26 cm.
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- Life and times of Richard Brautigan
- Subject
- Note
- Errata sheet (extension of the copyright page) inserted.
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFF 12-862
- ISBN
- 9781582437903
- 1582437904
- OCLC
- 730414277
- Author
- Hjortsberg, William, 1941-
- Title
- Jubilee hitchhiker : the life and times of Richard Brautigan / William Hjortsberg.
- Imprint
- Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, c2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [813]-829) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 12-862