Who Shot the Water Buffalo? A Novel

by Babbs, Ken

• ISBN13: 9781590204443
• ISBN10: 1590204441
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-14
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

Ken Babbs, famously a Merry Prankster and the best friend and working partner of Ken Kesey has at last finished his first novel and the wait was worth it. Major Tom Huckelbee, ³leathery as any Texican come crawling out of the sage,² and Major Mike Cochran, a ³loquacious, Ohio gangster,² make an unlikely pair training to be Marine chopper pilots on their way to Vietnam. The dynamic takes the reader from a couple of know-nothing kids straight out of high school, to soldiers in the middle of a disorienting war. Tough and comical, quiet and boisterous, and always vivid and poetic, Babbs is a writer at the top of his craft. Who Killed the Water Buffalo?manages to imbue the world in all its guts and glory through the eyes of a young man discovering what it means to be beholden to another‹a book not to be missed.

Author Biography

Ken Babbs attended Stanford University and was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam. A famous Merry Prankster who became one of the psychedelic leaders of the 1960s, he, along with best friend and Prankster leader, Ken Kesey, wrote Last Go Round. He lives in Dexter, Oregon.