{"product_id":"i-just-hitched-in-from-ed-mcclanahan-9781582437583","title":"I Just Hitched in from the Coast: The Ed McClanahan Reader","description":"This rollicking collection--personally selected by the author (in collaboration with his editor Tom Marksbury)--gathers the best of Ed McClanahan's work, making it a must-have for both long-time fans and newcomers alike. Comprised of fourteen works, \u003ci\u003eI Just Hitched in from the Coast\u003c\/i\u003e is an admixture of fiction and non-fiction, memoir and imagination. It includes such classics as \"Fondelle, or: The Whore with a Heart of Gold,\" and the wry essay \"The Day the Lampshades Breathed,\" chronicling McClanahan's time in the 1960s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \"The Essentials of Western Civilization,\" McClanahan imagines the affairs of Assistant Professor Harrison B. Eastep, MA, of Arbuckle State in Oregon, and of the gradual erosion of his dedication to academia. Weaving together Vietnam, rock and roll, a lackluster counterculture past, and the Great Plague of London, this is storytelling at its best by a master of the craft. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe foremost stylist of the Yippie generation, McClanahan writes with bemused affection. He parlays his Southern sensibilities and California experiences with a mastery of language, to tantalize his readers with musings that are absurd, whimsical, outrageous, and, in the words of one reviewer, \"wickedly sharp.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ed McClanahan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1582437580\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781582437583\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Catapult\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/11\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Ed McClanahan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44068652417279,"sku":"9781582437583","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f3bf8ad6-f80b-43ae-87ed-2ce2857833bf.jpg?v=1685420242","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/i-just-hitched-in-from-ed-mcclanahan-9781582437583","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}