Jubilee Hitchhiker The Life And Times Of Richard Brautigan William Hjortsberg by William Hjortsberg 9781582437903, 1582437904 instant download after payment.

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.