Synopsis This book, a collection of three cult favorites, exemplifies Richard Brautigan's subversive, comic, poignant vision of America. TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA, his most celebrated work, is part poetry, part prose, all Brautigan--a surreal meditation centering on a dreamer and outsider whose wanderings across America lead him to a series of meditations on life that serve as a bridge between the Beat-generation in which Brautigan came of age, and the tuned-in, turned-on world of the late '60s. On its publication in 1967, TROUT FISHING became an underground classic, and Brautigan was raised from obscurity to the position of one of the counterculture's chief gurus. He followed it in 1968 with IN WATERMELON SUGAR (a lyrical novel about an innocent post-apocalyptic universe, constructed entirely of sugar, where benign tigers interact with whimsical humans) and THE PILL VERSUS THE SPRINGHILL MINING DISASTER (Brautigan's only book of poetry).
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1989-03-01 | | Edition Description: | Illustrated |
| Size | | Length: | 400 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 17.6 oz |
Publisher's Note 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.
Required reading for the hip generation, this one-volume edition contains two novels and a collection of poetry. The comic genius and iconoclastic vision of American life will recapture today's reader.
Industry Reviews "'Brautigan' is [now] a fashionable watchword; and this fat volume shows us that, dangerous as it may be to his potent coterie status, he has earned the embarrassment of success....What is important is that Brautigan's outlandish gift is based in traditional narrative virtues. His dialogue is supernaturally exact; his descriptive concision is the perfect carrier for his extraordinary comic perceptions. Moreover, the book suposses a springtime moral emptiness; essentially works of language, they offer no bromides for living." New York Times Book Review - Thomas McGuane (02/15/1970)
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