With an introduction by Jarvis Cocker

With his revolutionary prose style and magical imagination, Richard Brautigan has become one of the major cult authors of our time. Trout Fishing in America is his take on America: a funny, original and miraculous journey through a country - and a mind.[...]

Three unforgettable Brautigan masterpieces reissued in a one-volume omnibus edition. Originally published in 1971, these bizarre flashes of insight and humor cover everything from "A High Building in Singapore" to the "Perfect California Day". This is Brautigan's only collection of stories and inclu[...]

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 rea[...]

What does a reader do when his favorite author dies? The sudden and unexpected loss of a steady stream of preferred reading material is a shock to the reading diet, and changing diets is never an easy thing. Here's one reader's answer: write your own book, paying tribute to the author and saying t[...]

Jesse and Lee share a house owned by a very nice Chinese dentist, where it rains in the hall. They move to cabins on the cliffs at Big Sur where the deafening croaks of frogs can be temporarily silenced by the cry, 'Campbell's Soup'. Ultimately, we learn how the frogs are permanently silenced ...and[...]

A novel that is set in the Pacific Northwest region of Oregon where Brautigan spent most of his childhood. It deals with the repercussions of this tragedy and its recurring theme of 'What if...' that fuels anguish, regret and self-blame as well as some darkly comic passages of bitter-sweet romance a[...]

Contains no fewer than 62 ultra-short stories set mainly in Tacoma, Washington and in the flower-powered San Francisco of the late fifties and early sixties. In this book, the author's stories take us into a world where his fleeting glimpses of everyday strangeness leave stories and characters reson[...]

Richard Brautigan (1935-1984) er blitt kalt den siste beatpoet. På norsk er han mest kjent som prosaforfatter, med Ørretfiske i Amerika og andre verk, men også diktene er oversatt kloden rundt. Jan Erik Volds gjendiktning Å føre krig mot den gjengse maratonprosa presenterer hele Richard Brautig[...]

Richard Brautigan slog igenom stort under kärlekssommaren 1967, men trots att han gjort San Francisco till sin hemstad hörde han egentligen varken hemma bland hippies eller i den tidigare generationen beatpoeter. Han är något helt för sig själv, en melankoliker med humor, en språkmagiker som [...]

Ianthe Brautigan var bara nio år när hennes pappa - författaren Richard Brautigan - första gången talade om för henne att han funderade på att ta sitt liv. När hon var 24 gjorde han verklighet av sina planer. Nu har åren gått och Ianthe har lyckats bearbeta sina känslor av svek, bitterhet[...]