← Richard BrautiganIn Watermelon Sugarby Richard BrautiganPoetic vision of post-apocalyptic society based on artificial sweetnessFind on Amazon↗About the authorRichard BrautiganRichard 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.More by Richard BrautiganTrout Fishing in AmericaPicaresque narrative meditation on American fishing and loss→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→