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Three counterculture classics by Richard Brautigan, literary icon of the 1960s, together in a single volume, including the unforgettable Trout Fishing in America.Trout Fishing in America is by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco through America's rural wa... Read More about Trout Fishing In America, Pill Vs Springhill Mine Disaster, In Watermelon Sugar

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. A book “that has very little to do with trout fishing and a lot to do with the lamenting of a passing pastoral America . . . an instant cult classic” (Financial Times).Richard Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and '70s who came of age during the heyday of Haight-As... Read More about Trout Fishing In America

This omnibus edition collects three classic novels by Richard Brautigan, "the counterculture's Mark Twain" (New York Times)."There is nothing like Richard Brautigan anywhere…This man has invented a genre, a whole new shot, a thing needed, delightful and right."—San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Ch... Read More about A Confederate General From Big Sur, Dreaming Of Babylon, The Hawkline Monster

Richard Brautigan's last novel, published in the U.S. for the first time Richard Brautigan was an original--brilliant and wickedly funny, his books resonated with the sixties, making him an overnight counterculture hero. Taken in its entirety, his body of work reveals an artistry that outreaches the... Read More about An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey

Three unforgettable masterpieces by Richard Brautigan, literary icon of the counter-culture movement, together in a single volume. 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 Califo... Read More about Revenge Of The Lawn, The Abortion, So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away

On the eve of his departure from Eugene, Oregon, to San Francisco and worldly success, a twenty-one-year-old unpublished writer named Richard Brautigan gave these funny, buoyant stories and poems as a gift to Edna Webster, the beloved mother of both his best friend and his first "real" girlfriend. "... Read More about The Edna Webster Collection Of Undiscovered Writing