← Richard BrautiganTrout Fishing in Americaby Richard BrautiganPicaresque narrative meditation on American fishing and lossFind 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 BrautiganIn 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→