Your Cant Catchh Death "a Daughter Memoir

Physical description; xiv, 209 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Notes; First published in the United States: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Summary; This memoir is Ianthe Brautigan'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 from Ianthe Brautigan's memoir of her father, is an 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 fame and critical praise fade away. Subjects; Brautigan family. Brautigan, Ianthe - Family. Brautigan, Richard 1933-1984. Brautigan, Richard - Biography. Authors, American - 20th century - Biography. Suicide victims - United States - Family relationships. Fathers - Death - Psychological aspects. Fathers and daughters - United States. Novelists, American - 20th century - Biography. Novels, other prose & writers. Literary studies: from c 1900 -. American English. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General.