The Fan Man Author:William Kotzwinkle The indestructible cult classic starring Horse Badorties, legendary founder of Dorky Day, begins... — — I am all alone in my pad, man, my piled-up-to-the-ceiling-with-junk pad. Piled with sheet music, with piles of garbage bags bursting with rubbish and encrusted frying pans piled on the floor, embedded with unnameable flecks of putrefied wretch... more »edness in grease. My pad, man, my own little Lower East Side Horse Badorties pad.
"This is music to be played in the head, and only the quickest, least inhibited sight-readers can play it as written, and thus hear head music the likes of which, prior to its publication in 1974, had never been heard. It was and remains important..." from Kurt Vonnegut's forward
"The landmark novel of the dusking of the Age of Aquarius after its beatnik-hippie, speedfreak-pataphysician, revolutionist-artist Lower East Side decade-long summer of love - be-ins, psychedelics, dumpster prospecting, tenant squatting - is William Kotzwinkle's The Fan Man." Herbert Gold« less
A satire of a stoned hippie set in New York City. The funniest laugh-out-loud book I've ever read. Catch-22 may have as many laughs, but it's much longer.
The Fan Man will stand next to Brautigan's Trout Fishing In America as the classic in Hippie Lit. It's just a wonderful joy ride through the mind of the narrator. Be prepared. And buckle up. It gets a little surreal.