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Trout Fishing in America
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Trout Fishing in America
Richard Brautigan's cult classic novel reissued to mark the 30th Anniversary of his death. Introduced by Neil Gaiman.
Richard Brautigan's cult classic novel reissued to mark the 30th Anniversary of his death. Introduced by Neil Gaiman
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Richard Brautigan's wonderfully zany, hilarious episodic novel is set amongst the rural waterways of America.
Here's a journey that begins at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco's Washington Square, wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways and ends, inevitably, with mayonnaise. With pure inventiveness and free-wheeling energy, the counterpoint to all those angry Beatniks, Brautigan tells the story of rural America and the hunt for a bit of trout fishing.
Funny, wild and sweet, Trout Fishing in America is an incomparable guidebook to the delights of exploration—of a country and a mind.
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Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan is celebrated for its unique blend of surrealism and absurd humour, drawing comparisons to the works of Burroughs and Kerouac. It captures a whimsical yet melancholic reflection on a disappearing pastoral America. The book's distinctive free-spirited style and black absurdist elements have earned it cult classic status, praised for its delicacy and humour.
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ISBN: 9781782113805
Publisher: Canongate Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 18 September 2014
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Canongate Canons
Edition: Main - Canons edition
Contributors:
- Introduction by Neil Gaiman
- Afterword by Billy Collins
- Introduction by Neil Gaiman
- Introduction by Neil Gaiman
- Introduction by Neil Gaiman
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 8.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 112g
Pages: 144
About the Author
Richard Brautigan was born in Tacoma, Washington where he spent much of his youth, before moving to San Francisco where he became involved with other writers in the Beat Movement. During the Sixties he became one of the most prolific and prominent members of the counter-cultural movement, and wrote some of his most famous novels including Trout Fishing in America, Sombrero Fallout and A Confederate General from Big Sur. He was found dead in 1984, aged 49, beside a bottle of alcohol and a .44 calibre gun. His daughter, Ianthe Brautigan, has written a biography of her father, You Can't Catch Death.
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