Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel - Hardcover

Brautigan, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671223313 ISBN 13: 9780671223311

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1976

Synopsis

Concerns a writer trying to cope with the break-up of a relationship. Trying to escape his misery, he begins a story about a sombrero that falls out of the sky and lands in a small town. Unable to concentrate he throws the pages in the bin, and that's when it starts to take on a life of its own.

About this title

Review:

"Brautigan's comic touch is predictably unerring and the hilarious narrative development is studded with wry surreal gags" (New Statesman)

"As always with Mr Brautigan, the more preposterous the situation, the funnier the book" (Sunday Telegraph)

"A born writer . . . he can't be dull" (Sunday Times)

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

"Delicate, fantastic and very funny . . . A highly individual style, a fertile, active inventiveness . . . It's cool, joyous, lucid and pleasant to read"

"Defies reality with complete success an original and charming view of the world"

"If you like a little eccentricity and humour in your fiction, this novel of tiny punchy chapters is a revelation" (Bath Life)

Book Description:

Reissued to mark the 30th Anniversary of Brautigan's death. Introduced by Jarvis Cocker

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0671223313
• ISBN 13: 9780671223311
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 187