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 biography of Richard Brautigan which follows his career from life among the Beats in 1950s San Francisco to the hippies in the 1960s to his abrupt suicide in 1984.
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