Richard Brautigan

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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books
  • First Book:
    November 1971
  • Latest Book:
    March 2009
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Book List in Order: 22 titles

  • Revenge of the Lawn

    First published in 1971, Revenge of the Lawn is Richard Brautigan in miniature and contains new fewer than 62 ultra-short stories set mainly in Tacoma, Washington (where the author grew up) and in the flower-powered San Francisco of the late fifties ...

  • The Abortion

    The Abortion is a genre novel parody about a California library which accepts books in any form & from all who wish to donate -- children submit crayoned tales of toys; teens of angst & elders drop of memoirs -- "the unwanted, the lyrical & haunted v...

  • Sombrero Fallout

  • Willard and His Bowling Trophies

    Brautigan was in many ways the Hemingway of the 60s--but a Hemingway with a playful sense of humor. His epigrammatic stories and poems are clean and simple, but like a pool of quiet water, sometimes deceptively deep; the individual parts of each of h...

  • Dreaming of Babylon

    It is early 1942. You are in San Francisco, and you need a private eye. Sam Spade is rumored to be in Istanbul. The Continental Op has been drafted and is a sergeant in the Aleutians. Philip Marlowe is up at Little Fawn Lake investigating the disappe...

  • Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt

  • The Tokyo-Montana Express

    Though the Tokyo-Montana Express moves at a great speed, there are many stops along the way. This book is those brief stations: some confident, others searching for their identities.The "I" in this book is the voice of the stations along the tracks o...

  • Hawkline Monster

    The time is 1902. The setting; eastern Oregon. The action begins when Magic Child, a fifteen-year-old Indian girl of surprising sophistication and accomplishment, wanders into the wrong whorehouse looking for the right men -- the men who will kill t...

  • So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

    A tragic tale of doomed independence and dignity in the 1940s centers on a lonely, confused teenaged boy whose greatest pleasure is in watching two old people fish and who has killed his best friend in a hunting accident...



  • Beneath Our Armour

  • Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Min e Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar

    Collected in one volume, three counterculture classics that embody the spirit of the 1960s.   Included here are three great works by the incomparable Richard Brautigan:  Trout Fishing in America is by turns a hilarious, playful, and melanch...

  • Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar

    An omnibus edition of three counterculture classics by Richard Brautigan that embody the spirit of the 1960s

     

    Trout Fishing in America is by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco thro...

  • Richard Brautigan

    This cult classic from the author of Trout Fishing in America “reads like a spaghetti Western crossed with Frankenstein, viewed through an opium haze” (The Sunday Times).   The celebrated poet, novelist, and guru of the 1960s San Francisco l...

  • Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

    Three masterpieces by “the counterculture’s Mark Twain,” collected in one volume, including the “lost chapters” of Trout Fishing in America (The New York Times Book Review).   An author who began his career handing out his work on the ...

  • Trout Fishing in America

    Richard Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vision of American life caught the imagination of young people everywhere. He came of age during the Haight-Ashbury period and has been called "the last...

  • The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writing

    On the eve of his departure from Eugene, Oregon, to San Francisco and worldly success, a twenty-one-year-old unpublished writer named Richard Brautigan gave these funny, buoyant stories and poems as a gift to Edna Webster, the beloved mother of both ...

  • An Unfortunate Woman

    Richard Brautigan's last novel, published in the U.S. for the first time

    Richard Brautigan was an original--brilliant and wickedly funny, his books resonated with the sixties, making him an overnight counterculture hero. Taken in its entire...

  • In Watermelon Sugar

    Please Read Notes: Brand New, International Softcover Edition, Printed in black and white pages, minor self wear on the cover or pages, Sale restriction may be printed on the book, but Book name, contents, and author are exactly same as Hardcover Edi...

  • Confederate General from Big Sur

    The year is 1957 in a California that was a preview of things to come in America -- the dawn of lifestyles that were eventually to have a profound and disturbing effect on our culture. This was Brautigan's first novel, written when he was 28. It was ...



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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Richard Brautigan has published 22 books.

Richard Brautigan does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Confederate General from Big Sur, was published in March 2009.

The first book by Richard Brautigan, Revenge of the Lawn, was published in November 1971.

No. Richard Brautigan does not write books in series.
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