← Richard BrautiganThe Hawkline Monsterby Richard BrautiganComic western following gun for hire on paranormal adventureFind 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→In Watermelon SugarPoetic vision of post-apocalyptic society based on artificial sweetness→The AbortionSatirical novel centered on bookstore offering free abortions→Willard and His Bowling Trophies→