Trip of a lifetime with the ghost of a dead father Richard Brautigan's books - once described as `Mark Twain on acid' - were cult classics for the hippie generation. Then in the Eighties, overwhelmed by alcohol abuse and disillusionment, he put a gun to his head and shot himself. Now his daughter has written a memoir of the man who haunts her life

The Independent - London | July 16, 2000| | Copyright

For many of her formative years, Ianthe Brautigan shuttled to and fro across the western United States to catch up with her elusive, nomadic father. He was Richard Brautigan, a literary star of the Sixties counterculture, author of Trout Fishing In America. Having divorced Ianthe's mother when she was still a baby, he flitted from San Francisco to a house on the Pacific coast, from a ranch in Montana to Tokyo and back.

And she followed. As a girl, she waited patiently in copy shops while he duplicated his latest manuscript page by painfully slow page. As a teenager, she watched him tell ...

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