Description
In a wildly unconventional California library, a solitary librarian accepts every book its visitors choose to leave behind—from childhood stories scrawled in crayon to intimate memoirs and haunted tales of American life. When a young woman enters the librarian’s world, their connection carries them beyond the library’s eccentric routines and into an unexpected journey. Blending romance, satire, and dreamlike absurdity, the novel explores creativity, loneliness, freedom, and the value of stories that exist outside literary convention. Its playful structure and offbeat imagination exemplify the author’s distinctive countercultural style.
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paperback
Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)
Published Jan 25, 1973
224 pages
ISBN: 9780224007795
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Details
First Published
1971
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Abortion by Richard Brautigan.