My Vita, If You Will: The Uncollected Ed McClanahan (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781887178778)

If you don't know Ed McClanahan, this "anthology of his essays, reviews, short stories, and novel excerpts (from early drafts) ought to do the trick" (Booklist).

Highlighting the collection is "Grateful Dead I Have Known," a long prize-winning meditation about Jerry Garcia and the fanatical devotion of his fans. Also collected here for the first time are McClanahans's earliest short stories, along with book reviews, lost chapters of The Natural Man, and a substantial afterword to Famous People I Have Known. His recollections of famous friends and fellow travelers form an integral part of this book. He joins his buddy Ken Kesey in a bus-journey reunion with other gray-haired Merry Pranksters, and he pokes fun at his own graduate-school flamboyance in a touching remembrance of his mentor Wallace Stegner.

Author: Ed McClanahan
ISBN-10: 1887178775
ISBN-13: 9781887178778
Publisher: Catapult
Language: English
Published: 09/12/1998
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.02w x 0.87d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/14/1998 pg. 47
Booklist 10/15/1998 pg. 388