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1 McClanahan, Ed: My Vita, If You Will : The Uncollected Ed McClanahan Softcover, Counterpoint, Washington, D. C., 1998 1887178775 / 9781887178778 Very Good, 0.87 x 7.96 x 5.02 Inches; 288 pages; Minor edge wear. "'This is really a book about a writer finding his voice', explains McClanahan, describing this assemblage of short fiction and essays written over five decades. From a 1952 C+ student story to the delightful nitrous oxide-vapored memoir "Grateful Dead I Have Known"(1972), McClanahan emerges as the stylist of the 'wild-eyed anarcho-syndicalist Yippie peace creeps' generation. An endearing candor marks his comments on his career's triumphs and setbacks. His memoirs of his days as a protege and colleague of Ken Kesey, Richard Brautigan, Wallace Stegner, Bernard Malamud and others are devoid of braggadocio and full of bemused affection. McClanahan watched a baseball game between the Grateful Dead and the Jefferson Airplane, and he rode Kesey's psychedelically retrofitted school bus three decades after Tom Wolfe did. A Kentucky native drawn to California by a writing fellowship, McClanahan has parlayed his Southern provincial sensibilities and front-row-at-Fillmore-West experiences into a mastery of language." Price: 3.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart