Jubilee Hitchhiker by William Hjortsberg

Jubilee Hitchhiker by William Hjortsberg

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 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 this etches the portrait of a man destroyed by his genius.

Alp, Gray Matters, and Falling Angel are among William Hjortsberg's eight books, as are the screenplays Legend and Thunder & Lightning. He and his wife, painter Janie Camp, live in Montana.

SKU	Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13	9781619021051
ISBN 10	1619021056
Titel	Jubilee Hitchhiker
Autor	William Hjortsberg
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Counterpoint
Erscheinungsjahr	2013-02-12
Seitenanzahl	880
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.