Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; the Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; and, in Watermelon Sugar.
Description
This landmark collection brings together three inventive works that challenge conventional ideas of genre, narrative, and reality. Through playful language, surreal imagery, and darkly comic observation, it explores memory, desire, loss, technology, and the fragile boundaries between civilization and nature. From a mock guide to an imagined pastime to a fragmented meditation on American life and a dreamlike vision of a post-apocalyptic community, the books showcase a singular literary imagination. Eccentric, lyrical, and subversive, this volume remains an enduring example of experimental American fiction.
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paperback
Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence
Published Jan 1, 1989
138 pages
ISBN: 9780395500767
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First Published
1989
Language
eng
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