The Tokyo-Montana Express

The Tokyo-Montana Express PDF Author: Richard Brautigan
Publisher: Delta
ISBN: 9780440586791
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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The Tokyo-Montana Express

The Tokyo-Montana Express PDF Author: Richard Brautigan
Publisher: Delta
ISBN: 9780440586791
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Tokyo-Montana express

Tokyo-Montana express PDF Author: Richard Brautigan
Publisher: Christian Bourgois Editeur
ISBN: 9782267002898
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 302

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Sombrero Fallout

Sombrero Fallout PDF Author: Richard Brautigan
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 0857867628
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157

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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.

You Can't Catch Death

You Can't Catch Death PDF Author: Ianthe Brautigan
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312264185
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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In all of the obituaries and writing about Richard Brautigan that appeared after his suicide, none revealed to Ianthe Brautigan the father she knew. Through it took all of her courage, she delved into her memories, good and bad, to retrieve him, and began to write. You Can't Catch Death is a frank, courageous, heartbreaking reflection on both a remarkable man and the child he left behind.

The Beijing-Vancouver Express: Connecting Toronto To Dalian, China to Canada

The Beijing-Vancouver Express: Connecting Toronto To Dalian, China to Canada PDF Author: Martin Avery
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312286806
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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The Beijing-Vancouver Express: Connecting Toronto To Dalian, China To Canada is an imaginative work of poetry inspired by the plans for a real train line and by an old book of poetry by Richard Brautigan.

June 30th, June 30th

June 30th, June 30th PDF Author: Richard Brautigan
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Jubilee Hitchhiker

Jubilee Hitchhiker PDF Author: William Hjortsberg
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619020459
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1454

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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.

In Japan

In Japan PDF Author: Robert Lawrence
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359529410
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Robert Lawrence's new book of poems is a type of travelogue set in Japan.

Postmodernist Fiction

Postmodernist Fiction PDF Author: Brian McHale
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134949162
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 357

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In this trenchant and lively study Brian McHale undertakes to construct a version of postmodernist fiction which encompasses forms as wide-ranging as North American metafiction, Latin American magic realism, the French New New Novel, concrete prose and science fiction. Considering a variety of theoretical approaches including those of Ingarden, Eco, Dolezel, Pavel, and Hrushovski, McHale shows that the common denominator is postmodernist fiction's ability to thrust its own ontological status into the foreground and to raise questions about the world (or worlds) in which we live. Exploiting various theoretical approaches to literary ontology - those of Ingarden, Eco, Dolezel, Pavel, Hrushovski and others - and ranging widely over contemporary world literature, McHale assembles a comprehensive repertoire of postmodernist fiction's strategies of world-making and -unmaking.

Japan 1941

Japan 1941 PDF Author: Eri Hotta
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385350511
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465

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A groundbreaking history that considers the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective and is certain to revolutionize how we think of the war in the Pacific. When Japan launched hostilities against the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a war they were almost certain to lose. Drawing on material little known to Western readers, and barely explored in depth in Japan itself, Hotta poses an essential question: Why did these men—military men, civilian politicians, diplomats, the emperor—put their country and its citizens so unnecessarily in harm’s way? Introducing us to the doubters, schemers, and would-be patriots who led their nation into this conflagration, Hotta brilliantly shows us a Japan rarely glimpsed—eager to avoid war but fraught with tensions with the West, blinded by reckless militarism couched in traditional notions of pride and honor, tempted by the gambler’s dream of scoring the biggest win against impossible odds and nearly escaping disaster before it finally proved inevitable. In an intimate account of the increasingly heated debates and doomed diplomatic overtures preceding Pearl Harbor, Hotta reveals just how divided Japan’s leaders were, right up to (and, in fact, beyond) their eleventh-hour decision to attack. We see a ruling cadre rich in regional ambition and hubris: many of the same leaders seeking to avoid war with the United States continued to adamantly advocate Asian expansionism, hoping to advance, or at least maintain, the occupation of China that began in 1931, unable to end the second Sino-Japanese War and unwilling to acknowledge Washington’s hardening disapproval of their continental incursions. Even as Japanese diplomats continued to negotiate with the Roosevelt administration, Matsuoka Yosuke, the egomaniacal foreign minister who relished paying court to both Stalin and Hitler, and his facile supporters cemented Japan’s place in the fascist alliance with Germany and Italy—unaware (or unconcerned) that in so doing they destroyed the nation’s bona fides with the West. We see a dysfunctional political system in which military leaders reported to both the civilian government and the emperor, creating a structure that facilitated intrigues and stoked a jingoistic rivalry between Japan’s army and navy. Roles are recast and blame reexamined as Hotta analyzes the actions and motivations of the hawks and skeptics among Japan’s elite. Emperor Hirohito and General Hideki Tojo are newly appraised as we discover how the two men fumbled for a way to avoid war before finally acceding to it. Hotta peels back seventy years of historical mythologizing—both Japanese and Western—to expose all-too-human Japanese leaders torn by doubt in the months preceding the attack, more concerned with saving face than saving lives, finally drawn into war as much by incompetence and lack of political will as by bellicosity. An essential book for any student of the Second World War, this compelling reassessment will forever change the way we remember those days of infamy.