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Publication date
  
1974

Dewey Decimal
  
813/.54 20

Publisher
  
Avon

OCLC
  
29357362

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Language
  
Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Originally published
  
1974

Genre
  
Country
  
United States of America

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Pages
  
208 p. (1994 paperback edition)

ISBN
  
978-0-679-75245-5 (1994 paperback edition)

Similar
  
William Kotzwinkle books, Novels

The fan man by william kotzwinkle


The Fan Man is a cult comic novel published in 1974 by the American writer William Kotzwinkle. It is told in stream-of-consciousness style by the narrator, Horse Badorties (the titular "fan man"), a down-at-the-heels hippie living a life of drug-fueled befuddlement in New York City c. 1970. The book is written in a colorful, vernacular "hippie-speak" and tells the story of the main character's hapless attempts to put together a benefit concert featuring his own hand-picked choir of 15-year-old girls.

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Horse is a somewhat tragic, though historically humorous, character with echoes of other famous characters in popular culture such as Reverend Jim Ignatowski of Taxi fame. In his inability to follow anything through to completion he displays symptoms of attention-deficit disorder though this could equally be drug-induced. His defining characteristic is his joy in renting or commandeering apartments which he fills with street-scavenged junk articles until, full to bursting, he moves on to his next "pad". The name "fan man" is a reference to another of his traits; the collecting and selling of fans of all shapes and sizes. The book's most memorably absurd section is the chapter titled "Dorky Day" which features the repetitive statement of the word "dorky" by Horse as a cathartic mantra to dispel the ennui of a dead-end day.

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References

The Fan Man Wikipedia


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