Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (536 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1619021056 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 864 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. 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. 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. 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. Part history, part biography, and part memoir, Jubilee Hitchhiker etches the portrait of a man destroyed by his genius.. To many, Brautigan was shrouded in enigma, erratic and unpredictable in his habits and presentation
--Donna Seaman . Brautigan never knew his father and lived a life of “grinding poverty” in Washington and Oregon with his scrappy mother and various stepfathers, picking fruit, fishing, idolizing Hemingway, and writing. After surviving a breakdown, incarceration, and electroshock treatments, Brautigan hitchhiked to San Francisco in 1956 and began the hard labor of transforming himself from a shy and awkward “country bumpkin” into a cutting-edge writer and iconic eccentric
BIOGRAPHY/HISTORY LESSON/MEMOIR OF BRAUTIGAN AND THE TIMES Stuart Jefferson This heavy tome is aimed pretty much at long time/original Brautigan readers (like me) who want to know a lot more (or anything) about both the man and his work. This 800 or so page book (not including 16 pages of b&w photos, the 17 page Bibliography and an Index) delves deeply into Brautigan's life and his writings, and how everything in, and surrounding, his life coalesced into an entire whole. Readers of his poems/novels hav. Caught between Beats and Hippies I was curious about Jubilee Hitchhiker when I read a review of it that said it covered the Beats well. I've read the Beats since childhood (probably ruined my life) and am still surprised at the amount of ink spilled on them every year, even as they all die off. Never a big fan of Brautigan, I was aware of him as a peripheral Beat and I met an old running buddy of his, Greg Keeler, at a book signing in Montana, so I decided to . AE, Alpena AR said A remarkable work. First, I feel since all book reviews are subjective by their very nature, therefore I should disclose a little about the reviewer, me. I am a 19A remarkable work AE, Alpena AR First, I feel since all book reviews are subjective by their very nature, therefore I should disclose a little about the reviewer, me. I am a 1944 model who began hearing of Richard Brautigan when I lived in Vallejo in the mid-sixties and reading by the 70's. In the late 70's I lived in Hermosa Beach and had at least one copy of everything still in print and a lot of used book store copies of some. I have no training in art or . A remarkable work AE, Alpena AR First, I feel since all book reviews are subjective by their very nature, therefore I should disclose a little about the reviewer, me. I am a 1944 model who began hearing of Richard Brautigan when I lived in Vallejo in the mid-sixties and reading by the 70's. In the late 70's I lived in Hermosa Beach and had at least one copy of everything still in print and a lot of used book store copies of some. I have no training in art or . model who began hearing of Richard Brautigan when I lived in Vallejo in the mid-sixties and reading by the 70's. In the late 70's I lived in Hermosa Beach and had at least one copy of everything still in print and a lot of used book store copies of some. I have no training in art or