Three masterpieces by “the counterculture’s Mark Twain,”
collected in one volume, including the “lost chapters” of Trout
Fishing in America (The New York Times Book Review). An author who
began his career handing out his work on the streets of San Francisco
and went on to become an underground icon of the 1960s and ’70s
before his tragic suicide, Richard Brautigan gained a unique literary
reputation for such works as In Watermelon Sugar as well as for his
gentle spirit, satirical wit, and whimsical, elliptical style. This
volume includes three of his most prominent works: 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 1966: A
public library in California where none of the books have ever been
published is full of romantic possibilities. But when the librarian
and his girlfriend must travel to Tijuana, they have a series of
strange encounters in Brautigan’s 1971 novel. So the Wind Won’t
Blow It All Away: 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, and published in 1982, this
novel foreshadowed Brautigan’s suicide. “It’s very hard to
label his work. Fairytale meets beat meets counterculture? Surrealism
meets folk meets scat? The writing is bursting with colour, humour and
imagery, mental flights of fancy, crazed and lurid details. . . .
The more you read, the less there seem to be regulations and governing
forces, ways of qualifying Brautigan. The mind of the author is simply
too unbound, too childlike in its enormous, regenerative capacity to
imagine.” —The Guardian
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ISBN
9780547525679
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Vendor
Mariner Books / Open Road Integrated Media
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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