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Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing In America, The Pill Versus The Springhill Mine Disaster; And In Watermelon Sugar

Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing In America, The Pill Versus The Springhill Mine Disaster; And In Watermelon Sugar

by Richard Brautigan

A Brautigan omnibus, reissued in paperback in celebration of its twentieth anniversary, this one-volume edition includes three contemporary classics that embody the spirit of the 1960s.

Death is a place where the sun shines a different colour every day and where people travel to the length of their dreams. Rejecting the violence and hate of the old gang at the Forgotten Works, they lead gentle lives in watermelon sugar. Brautigan expresses the mood of a new generation.

So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

by Richard Brautigan

It is 1979, and a man is recalling the events of his twelfth summer, when he bought bullets for his gun instead of a hamburger. Written just before his death, this novel foreshadowed Brautigan's suicide. It was originally published in 1982.

Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

by Richard Brautigan

Three unforgettable Brautigan masterpieces reissued in a one-volume omnibus edition. REVENGE OF THE LAWN: Originally published in 1971, these bizarre flashes of insight and humor cover everything from "A High Building in Singapore" to the "Perfect California Day." This is Brautigan's only collection of stories and includes "The Lost Chapters of TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA." THE ABORTION: AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE... (more)

An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey

by Richard Brautigan

Richard Brautigan's last novel, published in the U.S. for the first time Richard Brautigan was an original--brilliant and wickedly funny, his books resonated with the sixties, making him an overnight counterculture hero. Taken in its entirety, his body of work reveals an artistry that outreaches the literary fads that so quickly swept him up. Dark, funny, and exquisitely haunting, his final book-length fiction... (more)

Trout Fishing in America: A Novel

by Richard Brautigan

A novel which is both playful and serious, hilarious and melancholy. It takes a journey which starts at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in Washington Square, San Francisco, and wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways.

A Confederate General from Big Sur; Dreaming of Babylon; the Hawkline Monster

A Confederate General from Big Sur; Dreaming of Babylon; the Hawkline Monster

by Richard Brautigan

Richard Brautigan was the author of ten novels, including a contemporary classic, Trout Fishing in America, nine volumes of poetry, and a collection of stories.Here are three Brautigan novels--A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon and The Hawkline Monster--reissues in a one-volume omnibus edition.

Dreaming of BabylonRichard Brautigan

Dreaming of Babylon

by Richard Brautigan

You are in San Francisco, and you need a private eye. Nobody's left but C. Card. When you hire C. Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private eye barrel. The fast, funny, slam-bang adventures of seedy, not-too-bright C. Card are a delight to both the mind and the heart. The book was originally published in 1977.

Willard and His Bowling Trophies : A Perverse Mystery

Willard and His Bowling Trophies : A Perverse Mystery

by Richard Brautigan

Sombrero Fallout

by Richard. Brautigan

Concerns a writer trying to cope with the break-up of a relationship. Trying to escape his misery, he begins a story about a sombrero that falls out of the sky and lands in a small town. Unable to concentrate he throws the pages in the bin, and that's when it starts to take on a life of its own.

The Tokyo-Montana ExpressRichard Brautigan

The Tokyo-Montana Express

by Richard Brautigan

So the Wind Won't Blow It All AwayRichard Brautigan

So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

by Richard Brautigan

Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar

by Richard Brautigan

On the eve of his departure from Eugene, Oregon, to San Francisco and worldly success, a twenty-one-year-old unpublished writer named Richard Brautigan gave these funny, buoyant stories and poems as a gift to Edna Webster, the beloved mother of both his best friend and his first "real" girlfriend. "When I am rich and famous, Edna," he told her, "this will be your social security.' The stories and poems show... (more)