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Author: Richard Brautigan
Publisher: Amereon Limited
Published: 2009-07
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780848832612
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Gothic WesternAn imaginative novel about a mansion, a monster and a magic child
Author: Richard Brautigan
Publisher: Amereon Limited
Published: 2009-07
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780848832612
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Gothic WesternAn imaginative novel about a mansion, a monster and a magic child
Author: Richard Brautigan
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard Brautigan
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 2017-08-03
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1786890453
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Richard Brautigan
Publisher: HMH
Published: 2010-01-19
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 054748870X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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-Ashbury and whose comic genius and iconoclastic vision of American life caught the imaginations of young people everywhere. Called “the last of the Beats,” his early books became required reading for the hip generation, and on its publication Trout Fishing in America became an international bestseller. An indescribable romp, the novel is best summed up in one word: mayonnaise. This new edition features an introduction by poet Billy Collins, who first encountered Brautigan’s work as a student in California. From the introduction: “‘Trout Fishing in America’ is a catchphrase that morphs throughout the book into a variety of conceptual and dramatic shapes. At one point it has a physical body that bears such a resemblance to that of Lord Byron that it is brought by ship from Missolonghi to England, in 1824, where it is autopsied. ‘Trout Fishing in America’ is also a slogan that sixth-graders enjoy writing on the backs of first-graders. . . . In one notable exhibition of the title’s variability, ‘Trout Fishing in America’ turns into a gourmet with a taste for walnut catsup and has Maria Callas for a girlfriend. Through such ironic play, Brautigan destabilizes any conventional idea of a book as he begins to create a world where things seem unwilling to stay in their customary places.”
Author: William Hjortsberg
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2012-04-01
Total Pages: 1454
ISBN-13: 1619020459
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Richard Brautigan
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
Published: 1970-06
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ISBN-13: 9780440374961
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James M. McPherson
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2012-09-17
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0807837326
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies were crucial to the outcome of the Civil War. In War on the Waters, James M. McPherson has crafted an enlightening, at times harrowing, and ultimately thrilling account of the war's naval campaigns and their military leaders. McPherson recounts how the Union navy's blockade of the Confederate coast, leaky as a sieve in the war's early months, became increasingly effective as it choked off vital imports and exports. Meanwhile, the Confederate navy, dwarfed by its giant adversary, demonstrated daring and military innovation. Commerce raiders sank Union ships and drove the American merchant marine from the high seas. Southern ironclads sent several Union warships to the bottom, naval mines sank many more, and the Confederates deployed the world's first submarine to sink an enemy vessel. But in the end, it was the Union navy that won some of the war's most important strategic victories--as an essential partner to the army on the ground at Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, Mobile Bay, and Fort Fisher, and all by itself at Port Royal, Fort Henry, New Orleans, and Memphis.
Author: Richard Brautigan
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2001-07-10
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780312277109
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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.
Author: Ianthe Brautigan
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2001-07-10
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780312264185
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.