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Richard Brautigan
‘An absolute original’ Guardian
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‘A charming and original work… Rejecting the violence and hate of the old gang at the Forgotten Works, they lead gentle lives in watermelon sugar.
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A collection of short stories; a story of a librarian and his girlfriend who travel to Tijuana; and a story of a man who recalls his twelfth summer.
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Written in 160 pages of a loose-leaf notebook, this book comes to terms with the death of a friend by going on a personal odyssey which zigzags through time and…
‘Poetic, gently eccentric and deeply poignant’ - The Times
Marc Chenetier
Marc Chenetier’s study of Richard Brautigan, originally published in 1983, was the first book to attempt to assess his writing art which, far from weakening over the years, had become…
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Bill Archer
What does a reader do when his favorite author dies? The sudden and unexpected loss of a steady stream of preferred reading material is a shock to the reading diet…
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Corey Mesler
Fiction. Summoning all the wistfulness of Brautigan, Mesler has his narrator follow a ghostly hippie days of San Francisco.
rob mclennan
Thoroughly grounded in the media culture of film and television, mclennan’s language obscures the breadth and depth of this work.
Brautigan
Published 15 years after his suicide, this all-new, youthful work by Brautigan, was written a decade before he found sudden fame with Trout Fishing in America .
A Gothic WesternAn imaginative novel about a mansion, a monster and a magic child
A reclusive young man works in a San Francisco library for unpublishable books. The librarian makes her feel comfortable, and together they live in the back of the library until…
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On the eve of his departure from Eugene, Oregon, to San Francisco and worldly success, a twenty-one-year-old unpublished writer named Richard Brautigan gave these funny, buoyant stories and poems as…
Told in classic Brautigan style, An Unfortunate Woman is a dark, funny, and haunting exploration of the author’s final months–thinly disguised as the protagonist’s ruminations on death–which resonates powerfully in…
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…
‘Brautigan is a folk-artist, a master storyteller’ - Sarah Hall
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Two novels and a collection of poetry offer a sixties counterculture look at America.
A single-volume reissue of the contemporary American classic.
American writer, Richard Gary Brautigan is best known for his novel Trout Fishing in America . This book includes essays, which combine personal remembrance of the man and critical appraisal…
B Elwin Sherman
B. Elwin Sherman is a humorist/author living in the New Hampshire North Country, where he writes a syndicated humor column and often reinvents the cottage industry survival kit. His books…
62 of Brautigan’s ultra-short stories, reissued to mark the 30th anniversary of his death. Introduced by Sarah Hall.
William Hjortsberg
When Brautigan took his own life in September of 1984 his close friends and network of artists and writers were devastated though not entirely surprised. To many, Brautigan was shrouded…
John Tanner
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Richard Brautigan was a counter-cultural celebrity, a writer that the would-be hip just had to read. The problem was that his fame did…
Reissued to mark the 30th Anniversary of Brautigan’s death. Introduced by Jarvis Cocker.
Richard Brautigan’s first novel, reissued to mark the 30th anniversary of his death. Introduced by Black Francis.
Cornelia Riedel
Richard Brautigan (1935-1984), in den 60er Jahren vielgelesenes Idol der Jugendprotestbewegung, macht die schmerzhaft erfahrene Diskrepanz zwischen dem uberzeitlichen Mythos -Amerika- und der US-Wirklichkeit des 20. Jahrhunderts zu seinem Thema…
Richard Brautigan’s cult classic novel reissued to mark the 30th Anniversary of his death. Introduced by Neil Gaiman.
