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Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, and So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away
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Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, and So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away
About this book
Three masterpieces by "the counterculture's Mark Twain," collected in one volume, including the "lost chapters" of
Trout Fishing in America (
The New York Times Book Review).
An author who began his career handing out his work on the streets of San Francisco and went on to become an underground icon of the 1960s and '70s before his tragic suicide, Richard Brautigan gained a unique literary reputation for such works as In Watermelon Sugar as well as for his gentle spirit, satirical wit, and whimsical, elliptical style. This volume includes three of his most prominent works:
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 California Day." This is Brautigan's only collection of stories and includes "The Lost Chapters of Trout Fishing in America."
The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966: A public library in California where none of the books have ever been published is full of romantic possibilities. But when the librarian and his girlfriend must travel to Tijuana, they have a series of strange encounters in Brautigan's 1971 novel.
So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away: It is 1979, and a man is recalling the events of his twelfth summer, when he bought bullets for his gun instead of a hamburger. Written just before his death, and published in 1982, this novel foreshadowed Brautigan's suicide.
"It's very hard to label his work. Fairytale meets beat meets counterculture? Surrealism meets folk meets scat? The writing is bursting with colour, humour and imagery, mental flights of fancy, crazed and lurid details. . . . The more you read, the less there seem to be regulations and governing forces, ways of qualifying Brautigan. The mind of the author is simply too unbound, too childlike in its enormous, regenerative capacity to imagine." — The Guardian
An author who began his career handing out his work on the streets of San Francisco and went on to become an underground icon of the 1960s and '70s before his tragic suicide, Richard Brautigan gained a unique literary reputation for such works as In Watermelon Sugar as well as for his gentle spirit, satirical wit, and whimsical, elliptical style. This volume includes three of his most prominent works:
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 California Day." This is Brautigan's only collection of stories and includes "The Lost Chapters of Trout Fishing in America."
The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966: A public library in California where none of the books have ever been published is full of romantic possibilities. But when the librarian and his girlfriend must travel to Tijuana, they have a series of strange encounters in Brautigan's 1971 novel.
So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away: It is 1979, and a man is recalling the events of his twelfth summer, when he bought bullets for his gun instead of a hamburger. Written just before his death, and published in 1982, this novel foreshadowed Brautigan's suicide.
"It's very hard to label his work. Fairytale meets beat meets counterculture? Surrealism meets folk meets scat? The writing is bursting with colour, humour and imagery, mental flights of fancy, crazed and lurid details. . . . The more you read, the less there seem to be regulations and governing forces, ways of qualifying Brautigan. The mind of the author is simply too unbound, too childlike in its enormous, regenerative capacity to imagine." — The Guardian
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Revenge of the Lawn
- Revenge of the Lawn
- 1692 Cotton Mather Newsreel
- 1/3, 1/3, 1/3
- The Gathering of a Californian
- A Short Story about Contemporary Life in California
- Pacific Radio Fire
- Elmira
- Coffee
- The Lost Chapters of Trout Fishing in America: “Rembrandt Creek” and “Carthage Sink”
- The Weather in San Francisco
- Complicated Banking Problems
- A High Building in Singapore
- An Unlimited Supply of 35 Millimeter Film
- The Scarlatti Tilt
- The Wild Birds of Heaven
- Winter Rug
- Ernest Hemingway’s Typist
- Homage to the San Francisco YMCA
- The Pretty Office
- A Need for Gardens
- The Old Bus
- The Ghost Children of Tacoma
- Talk Show
- I was Trying to Describe You to Someone
- Trick or Treating Down to the Sea in Ships
- Blackberry Motorist
- Thoreau Rubber Band
- 44:40
- Perfect California Day
- The Post Offices of Eastern Oregon
- Pale Marble Movie
- Partners
- Getting to Know Each Other
- A Short History of Oregon
- A Long Time Ago People Decided to Live in America
- A Short History of Religion in California
- April in God-damn
- One Afternoon in 1939
- Corporal
- Lint
- A Complete History of Germany and Japan
- The Auction
- The Armored Car
- The Literary Life in California/1964
- Banners of My Own Choosing
- Fame in California/1964
- Memory of a Girl
- September California
- A Study in California Flowers
- The Betrayed Kingdom
- Women When They Put Their Clothes On in the Morning
- Halloween in Denver
- Atlantisburg
- The View from the Dog Tower
- Greyhound Tragedy
- Crazy Old Women are Riding the Buses of America Today
- The Correct Time
- Holiday in Germany
- Sand Castles
- Forgiven
- American Flag Decal
- The World War I Los Angeles Airplane
- The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966
- BOOK 1: Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight?
- BOOK 2: Vida
- BOOK 4: Tijuana
- BOOK 5: My Three Abortions
- BOOK 6: The Hero
- So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away
- About the Author
- Connect with HMH
- Footnotes