Richard Brautigan
Richard Brautigan was a San Francisco countercultural writer whose gentle, melancholy fictions mixed nostalgia, surrealism, and pastoral fantasy. Trout Fishing in America is his most celebrated work.
Works
- Trout Fishing in AmericaPicaresque narrative meditation on American fishing and loss
- In Watermelon SugarPoetic vision of post-apocalyptic society based on artificial sweetness
- The AbortionSatirical novel centered on bookstore offering free abortions
- The Hawkline MonsterComic western following gun for hire on paranormal adventure
- Willard and His Bowling Trophies