You Can't Catch Death: A Daughter's Memoir

Edinburgh: Rebel Inc., 2000. First Edition. Octavo with red cloth boards in green and yellow jacket; xiv, 209 pages: illustrations, portraits; 23 cm Fine in fine jacket with small wrinkle at bottom edge; now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 1841950254

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.

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