false 12572 4 His daughter was 24 when quintessential '60s author Richard Brautigan (<I>Trout Fishing in America</I>) killed himself in 1984, and the obituaries were almost as painful for her as his tragic act. "I did not recognize the dignified, brilliant, hysterically funny, and sometimes difficult man who was my father in anything they wrote," says Ianthe Brautigan, who makes it her business to capture those qualities in this poignant memoir. Her recollections of an unsettled childhood bouncing between two free-spirited parents' bohemian homes (in San Francisco, Montana, Hawaii, and Japan) are remarkably free from bitterness, even when she chronicles drunken phone calls from her suicidal father. Alcohol was Richard Brautigan's fatal weakness, prompted by severe depressions rooted in an impoverished, unhappy childhood. But Ianthe also depicts his tenderness and warmth, the magical sessions of impromptu storytelling with writer buddies like Tom McGuane and Jim Harrison, the glamour of meeting movie stars Peter Fonda and Margot Kidder. She comes to terms with the past that always haunted her father when she makes a trip to Oregon to see her grandmother, estranged from Richard for 25 years. Without presuming to solve the mystery of his death, the author reclaims the values of Brautigan's life and work in her touching, sensitively written book. <I>--Wendy Smith</I> 14857 2000 You Can't Catch Death: A Daughter's Memoir total:92|5:22|4:37|3:26|2:6|1:1| 92 349 131 9 4 1 false false Tue Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 30 08:39:57 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 28 20:26:05 -0700 2008 She records her life with he...more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Sat Aug 18 11:51:49 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 18 12:00:44 -0700 2007 Dream Catcher - written by Salinger's daughter, Margaret - a year or two beforehand and so, when I stumbled across this book I jumped at it. I have to say I really enjoyed it. It is quite sad because Brautigan killed himself and here is his daughter, who was nine years old when he d...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Apr 23 14:49:43 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 23 14:55:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2000 Mon Apr 21 09:58:01 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 21 09:58:01 -0700 2008 Like In Watermelon Sugar, I read this on a cross-country road trip. I met the author in a bookstore in Petaluma, California.]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 18:34:37 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 13:32:20 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Apr 19 10:08:27 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 02 10:12:44 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Feb 11 09:31:18 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 09:31:55 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Sep 27 18:03:03 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 27 18:03:40 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Jan 31 12:13:55 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 12:15:05 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Nov 04 16:26:28 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 16:26:30 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 04 12:01:08 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 12:01:08 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Oct 14 16:29:18 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 16:29:18 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Sep 24 21:30:25 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 21:30:25 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Sep 18 12:05:13 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 12:05:13 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Sep 07 18:19:04 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 18:19:04 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Sep 04 09:45:31 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 09:45:38 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Aug 27 16:08:46 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 16:08:46 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Aug 20 14:34:29 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 14:34:29 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jul 23 18:12:03 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 18:12:03 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jul 13 21:24:16 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 21:24:16 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=851879