Episodes (Graywolf Memoir)

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From Publishers Weekly
Poet, street minister, traveler and lover, Delattre ( Tales of a Dalai Lama ) has lived a rich life, and he recounts it in 92 two-page vignettes. Though the episodes stand on their own and Delattre encourages browsing, some readers may wish for a more developed narrative. Still, he tells amusing tales about his childhood and about people like the pest who prompted his friends to hold a fund-raising "Get Rid of Richard Night." He opened "an experimental coffeehouse ministry" in San Francisco and, as "the beatnik priest," was featured in Time and Newsweek. In Mexico, he barely escaped from two thugs and also met an Aztec-featured shoeshine boy who read Proust with his Francophile sailor father. Delattre married, divorced, found new love, studied and taught yoga, believes in UFOs and reports having a spontaneous orgasm after viewing a full moon. He has encountered the famous: he recalls concert promoter Bill Graham's beginnings, how author Richard Brautigan "could get drunk on anything" and how Neal Cassady died with Delattre's address in his pocket. In reaction to the latter news, Delattre decided, "I wanted to burn a slow flame, and last a long time."
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal
Writer, painter, and editor of Beatitude , Delattre has published two earlier books, Tales of the Dalai Lama (1971) and Walking on Air ( LJ 5/15/80). His latest offering consists of a series of one-page epiphanies, arranged chronologically, that record illuminating moments in the author's life. The sketches cover a wide range of subjects both public and private providing glimpses into Delattre's childhood, his marriages, and his life as a North Beach street minister. They also include brief portraits of Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, Bill Graham, and Charles de Gaulle, among others. A love of life, a warm sense of humor, and a powerful spiritual yearning infuse these writings. Highly recommended.
- William Gargan, Brooklyn Coll. Lib., CUNY
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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