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The Fan Man

Published
Jan 1979
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General Fiction General Fiction
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207

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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 wretchedness 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..." Kurt Vonnegut
 
"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

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Apr 1977 Penguin (UK) ISBN 0140041915
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May 1987 Plume ISBN 0525483071
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Jun 1994 Knopf ISBN 0679752455
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Jul 1994 HarperCollins ISBN 0380007908
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Oct 2015 Pharos Editions ISBN 1940436273
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Feb 1974 Harmony ISBN 0517515032
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Jan 1979 Avon ISBN 0380431254
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Oct 2013 William Kotzwinkle ISBN B00G0Q6XYU
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