Hawkline Monster

Hawkline Monster

Author: Richard Brautigan

Publisher: Amereon Limited

Published: 2009-07

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780848832612

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A Gothic WesternAn imaginative novel about a mansion, a monster and a magic child


A Confederate General From Big Sur

A Confederate General From Big Sur

Author: Richard Brautigan

Publisher: Canongate Books

Published: 2014-09-18

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1782113827

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Jesse and Lee share a house owned by a very nice Chinese dentist, where it rains in the hall. They move to cabins on the cliffs at Big Sur where the deafening croaks of frogs can be temporarily silenced by the cry, 'Campbell's Soup'. Ultimately, we learn how the frogs are permanently silenced . . . and dreams disperse around a fire into 186,000 endings per second. In anticipating flower power and the ideals of the Sixties, Brautigan's debut novel was at least at decade before its time and remains a weird and brilliant classic.


Sombrero Fallout

Sombrero Fallout

Author: Richard Brautigan

Publisher: Canongate Books

Published: 2012-08-02

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 0857867628

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A heartbroken American writer starts a story about an ice-cold sombrero that falls inexplicably from the sky and lands in the centre of a small Southwest town. Devastated by the departure of his gorgeous Japanese girlfriend, he cannot concentrate on his writing and in frustration he throws away his beginning. But as the man searches through his apartment for strands of his lost love's hair, the discarded story in the wastepaper basket - through some kind of elaborate origami - carries on without him. Arguments over the sombrero begin, one thing leads to another and before long all hell breaks loose in the normally sleep town. Brautigan's fertile imagination twists and pulls at the ensuing chaos to come up with a tender, moving, surreal and incredibly funny tale that is told by a writer at the very peak of his creative powers.


Dreaming of Babylon

Dreaming of Babylon

Author: Richard Brautigan

Publisher: Canongate Books

Published: 2017-08-03

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1786890453

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When you hire C.Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private eye barrel. And when Card is hired to steal a body from the morgue, he needs to stop dreaming, find bullets for his gun and get there before someone else does. Not since Trout Fishing in America has Brautigan so successfully combined his wild sense of humour with his famous poetic imagination. In this parody of the hard-boiled crime novel, the adventures of seedy, not-too-bright C.Card are a delight to both the mind and the heart.


Jubilee Hitchhiker

Jubilee Hitchhiker

Author: William Hjortsberg

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 2012-04-01

Total Pages: 1454

ISBN-13: 1619020459

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Confident and robust, Jubilee Hitchhiker is an comprehensive biography of late novelist and poet Richard Brautigan, author of Troutfishing in America and A Confederate General from Big Sur, among many others. 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 in enigma, erratic and unpredictable in his habits and presentation. But his career was formidable, an inspiration to young writers like Hjortsberg trying to get their start. Brautigan's career wove its way through both the Beat–influenced San Francisco Renaissance in the 1950s and the "Flower Power" hippie movement of the 1960s; while he never claimed direct artistic involvement with either period, Jubilee Hitchhiker also delves deeply into the spirited times in which he lived. As Hjortsberg guides us through his search to uncover Brautigan as a man the reader is pulled deeply into the writer's world. Ultimately this is a work that seeks to connect the Brautigan known to his fans with the man who ended his life so abruptly in 1984 while revealing the close ties between his writing and the actual events of his life. Part history, part biography, and part memoir this etches the portrait of a man destroyed by his genius.


You Can't Catch Death

You Can't Catch Death

Author: Ianthe Brautigan

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2001-07-10

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780312264185

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In all of the obituaries and writing about Richard Brautigan that appeared after his suicide, none revealed to Ianthe Brautigan the father she knew. Through it took all of her courage, she delved into her memories, good and bad, to retrieve him, and began to write. You Can't Catch Death is a frank, courageous, heartbreaking reflection on both a remarkable man and the child he left behind.


The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings

The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings

Author: Richard Brautigan

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780395974698

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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".


The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction

The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction

Author: Gordon Slethaug

Publisher: SIU Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780809318414

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In The Hawkline Monster, Brautigan's minimalist metafictive parody of the double depicts our narcissistic view of reality. In Double or Nothing, Federman subverts the conventional double, exposing its gamelike structures and traditional views of life and text.


So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

Author: Richard Brautigan

Publisher: Canongate Books

Published: 2011-12-01

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 1847677487

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In a small Pacific Northwest town we meet a young man who has shot dead his best friend with a gun. The novel deals with the repercussions of this tragedy: the anguish, regret, despair and bittersweet romance. Typical of Brautigan's singular style, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away is a beautifully written, brooding novel. Its autobiographical prose is a fitting epitaph to this complex, contradictory and often misunderstood writer.