Description
After a Japanese woman leaves him, a heartbroken American writer becomes fixated on a sombrero that mysteriously falls from the sky, setting off a chain of absurd and unsettling events. As his private grief unfolds alongside a fantastical tale of a small Japanese town preparing for disaster, the boundaries between imagination, loneliness, and reality begin to blur. Darkly comic, dreamlike, and playfully inventive, the novel explores romantic loss, cultural dislocation, artistic creation, and the strange ways the mind makes meaning from chaos.
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paperback
Arena
Published Jan 1, 1987
192 pages
ISBN: 9780099391104
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Details
First Published
1976
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brautigan.
Suicide/Self-Harm
Death/Grief
Mental Illness