Trout Fishing in America - Softcover

Brautigan, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0547255276 ISBN 13: 9780547255279

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2010

Synopsis

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 of the Beats." His early books became required reading for the hip generation, and on its publication Trout Fishing in America became an international bestseller. An indescribable romp, the novel is best summed up in one word: mayonnaise.

This new edition includes an introduction by the poet Billy Collins, who first encountered Brautigan's work as a student in California.

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Review:

"Trout Fishing is a pleasant surprise, though probably not so for aspiring anglers. It's a little as if Hemingway had stopped worrying about his masculinity, being a simple anecdotal ramble around memories and rural America... streets ahead of Burroughs or Kerouac." (The Observer)

"His style and wit transmit so much energy that energy itself becomes the message. Brautigan...makes all the senses breathe. Only a hedonist could cram so much life onto a single page" (Newsweek)

"Playful and serious, hilarious and melancholy, profound and absurd...how delightfully unique a prose writer Richard Brautigan is" (Times Literary Supplement)

"He writes with a kind of free-wheeling, zany magic" (Guardian)

"Delicate, fantastic and very funny...a highly individual style, a fertile, active inventiveness" (Malcolm Bradbury)

Book Description:

‘A book infused with a bucolic surrealism and mournful psychedelia that has very little to do with trout fishing and a lot to do with the lamenting of a passing pastoral America... An instant cult classic’ Financial Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0547255276
• ISBN 13: 9780547255279
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144