Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan
- ISBN-10
- 1582437904
- ISBN-13
- 9781582437903
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 852
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Counterpoint Press
- Author
- William Hjortsberg
Description
This comprehensive biography of the author of Trout Fishing in America and A Confederate General from Big Sur portrays his career among the Beats in 1950s San Francisco to the Hippies in the 1960s to his abrubt suicide in 1984.
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