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Jubilee Hitchhiker - The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan (Paperback)
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Jubilee Hitchhiker - The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan (Paperback)
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Confident and robust, Jubilee Hitchhiker is an 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.
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