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.

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.

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

An Unfortunate Woman
An Unfortunate Woman

Author: Richard Brautigan

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2001-07-10

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780312277109

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"Assumes the form of a traveler's journal, chronicling the protagonists's journey and his oblique ruminations on the suicide of one woman and the death from cancer of another, close friend."--Jacket.

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.