A Confederate General From Big Sur

Author : Richard Brautigan
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782113829

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A Confederate General From Big Sur by Richard Brautigan Pdf

Jesse and Lee share a house owned by a very nice Chinese dentist, where it rains in the hall. They move to cabins on the cliffs at Big Sur where the deafening croaks of frogs can be temporarily silenced by the cry, 'Campbell's Soup'. Ultimately, we learn how the frogs are permanently silenced . . . and dreams disperse around a fire into 186,000 endings per second. In anticipating flower power and the ideals of the Sixties, Brautigan's debut novel was at least at decade before its time and remains a weird and brilliant classic.

Author : Richard Brautigan
Publisher : Amereon Limited
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0848832612

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Hawkline Monster by Richard Brautigan Pdf

A Gothic WesternAn imaginative novel about a mansion, a monster and a magic child

Author : Richard Brautigan
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786890450

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Dreaming of Babylon by Richard Brautigan Pdf

When you hire C.Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private eye barrel. And when Card is hired to steal a body from the morgue, he needs to stop dreaming, find bullets for his gun and get there before someone else does. Not since Trout Fishing in America has Brautigan so successfully combined his wild sense of humour with his famous poetic imagination. In this parody of the hard-boiled crime novel, the adventures of seedy, not-too-bright C.Card are a delight to both the mind and the heart.

Author : Richard Brautigan
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782113812

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Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan Pdf

Richard Brautigan's wonderfully zany, hilarious episodic novel set amongst the rural waterways of America. Here's a journey that begins at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco's Washington Square, wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways and ends, inevitably, with mayonnaise. With pure inventiveness and free-wheeling energy, the counterpoint to all those angry Beatniks, Brautigan tells the story of rural America, and the hunt for a bit of trout fishing. Funny, wild and sweet, Trout Fishing in America is an incomparable guidebook to the delights of exploration - of a country and a mind.

Author : William Hjortsberg
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 1454 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781619020450

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Jubilee Hitchhiker by William Hjortsberg Pdf

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.

Author : Richard Brautigan
Publisher : Dell Publishing Company
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1970-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0440374960

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Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt by Richard Brautigan Pdf

Author : Richard Brautigan
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857867629

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Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brautigan Pdf

A heartbroken American writer starts a story about an ice-cold sombrero that falls inexplicably from the sky and lands in the centre of a small Southwest town. Devastated by the departure of his gorgeous Japanese girlfriend, he cannot concentrate on his writing and in frustration he throws away his beginning. But as the man searches through his apartment for strands of his lost love's hair, the discarded story in the wastepaper basket - through some kind of elaborate origami - carries on without him. Arguments over the sombrero begin, one thing leads to another and before long all hell breaks loose in the normally sleep town. Brautigan's fertile imagination twists and pulls at the ensuing chaos to come up with a tender, moving, surreal and incredibly funny tale that is told by a writer at the very peak of his creative powers.

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307531018

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How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove Pdf

From the master of alternate history comes an epic of the second Civil War. It was an epoch of glory and success, of disaster and despair. . . . 1881: A generation after the South won the Civil War, America writhed once more in the bloody throes of battle. Furious over the annexation of key Mexican territory, the United States declared total war against the Confederate States of America in 1881. But this was a new kind of war, fought on a lawless frontier where the blue and gray battled not only each other but the Apache, the outlaw, the French, and the English. As Confederate General Stonewall Jackson again demonstrated his military expertise, the North struggled to find a leader who could prove his equal. In the Second War Between the States, the times, the stakes, and the battle lines had changed--and so would history. . .

Author : Richard Brautigan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:824214031

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Willard and His Bowling Trophies by Richard Brautigan Pdf

Author : Richard Brautigan
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782114840

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An Unfortunate Woman by Richard Brautigan Pdf

An Unfortunate Woman, An Unforgettable Journey was the final book written by Richard Brautigan before his death in 1984 and lay unpublished for sixteen years. Originally written in the 160 pages of a loose-leaf notebook, the narrator of the book is trying to come to terms with the death of a friend by going on a personal odyssey which zigzags through time and landscapes, from Oakland to Hawaii, and the wilds of Montana. An Unfortunate Woman, An Unforgettable Journey walks a fine line between fiction and memoir, between dark introspection and a lust for life, and in the last pages in particular, marks a gut-wrenching, intense, and ultimately tragic exit from fiction and life itself for the troubled author.

Author : Ianthe Brautigan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025050431

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You Can't Catch Death by Ianthe Brautigan Pdf

Ianthe Brautigan was nine years old when her father, the Californian beat writer Richard Brautigan, first told her he wanted to commit suicide. She was twenty-five years old when he finally realised his death wish, taking his own life with a shotgun. This memoir is Ianthe's attempt to make sense of her famous father's suicide, to come to terms with it, and to try and paint a picture of the man she knew. What emerges is a moving account of a complex, witty, caring man who was torn apart by internal demons, and of a writer who became a hero of the 50s and 60s counter-culture but had to endure watching his fame and work fade away into relative obscurity. Written with a clarity of recall, an understated wit, and with real control and pace, You Can't Catch Death is a fascinating insight into the man behind the legend, and of the daughter he left behind.

Author : Richard Brautigan
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847677488

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So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away by Richard Brautigan Pdf

In a small Pacific Northwest town we meet a young man who has shot dead his best friend with a gun. The novel deals with the repercussions of this tragedy: the anguish, regret, despair and bittersweet romance. Typical of Brautigan's singular style, So the Wind Won't Blow it all Away is a beautifully written, brooding novel. Its autobiographical prose is a fitting epitaph to this complex, contradictory and often misunderstood writer.

Author : Richard Brautigan
Publisher : HMH
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547525563

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A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster by Richard Brautigan Pdf

This cult classic from the author of Trout Fishing in America “reads like a spaghetti Western crossed with Frankenstein, viewed through an opium haze” (The Sunday Times). The celebrated poet, novelist, and guru of the 1960s San Francisco literary scene, Richard Brautigan brings his highly original Gonzo style to this surreal parody Western. The time is 1902, the setting eastern Oregon. In the ice caves underneath Professor Hawkline’s house, a deadly monster lurks. It’s already turned the professor into an elephant foot umbrella stand, and now his two beautiful daughters have hired a pair of gunslingers to put a stop to the mayhem. But Hawkline Manor is full of curiosities and secrets, like the professor’s underground laboratory where his work on The Chemicals remains unfinished. And as the gunslingers pursue their peculiar quarry, they encounter monstrous mischief, amorous advances, and evil that is all too human. “Bursting with colour, humour and imagery, Brautigan’s virtuoso prose is rooted in his rural past.” —The Guardian

Author : Richard Brautigan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : San Francisco Bay (Calif.)
ISBN : 1782113789

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Revenge of the Lawn by Richard Brautigan Pdf

Revenge of the Lawn is Richard Brautigan in miniature and contains no fewer than 62 ultra-short stories set mainly in Tacoma, Washington (where the author grew up) and in the flower-powered San Francisco of the late fifties and early sixties. In their compacted form, which ranges from the murderously short 'The Scarlatti Tilt' to one-page wonders like the sexually poignant poetry of 'An Unlimited Supply of 35 Millimetre Film', Brautigan's stories take us into a world where his fleeting glimpses of everyday strangeness leave stories and characters resonating in our heads long after they're gone.

Author : Allen C. Guelzo
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101912225

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Robert E. Lee by Allen C. Guelzo Pdf

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the award-winning historian and best-selling author of Gettysburg comes the definitive biography of Robert E. Lee. An intimate look at the Confederate general in all his complexity—his hypocrisy and courage, his inner turmoil and outward calm, his disloyalty and his honor. "An important contribution to reconciling the myths with the facts." —New York Times Book Review Robert E. Lee is one of the most confounding figures in American history. Lee betrayed his nation in order to defend his home state and uphold the slave system he claimed to oppose. He was a traitor to the country he swore to serve as an Army officer, and yet he was admired even by his enemies for his composure and leadership. He considered slavery immoral, but benefited from inherited slaves and fought to defend the institution. And behind his genteel demeanor and perfectionism lurked the insecurities of a man haunted by the legacy of a father who stained the family name by declaring bankruptcy and who disappeared when Robert was just six years old. In Robert E. Lee, the award-winning historian Allen Guelzo has written the definitive biography of the general, following him from his refined upbringing in Virginia high society, to his long career in the U.S. Army, his agonized decision to side with Virginia when it seceded from the Union, and his leadership during the Civil War. Above all, Guelzo captures Robert E. Lee in all his complexity--his hypocrisy and courage, his outward calm and inner turmoil, his honor and his disloyalty.