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[...]

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[...]

Året er 1942, stedet er San Francisco og den mislykkede og blakke privatdetektiven C. Card begir seg ut på tvilsomt oppdrag i håp om å skaffe lettjente penger. Oppdragsgiveren er en mistenkelig øldrikkende dame. Med moren sin hengende over seg som en brysk anklager, gjør Card så godt han kan.[...]

Richard Brautigan var en mycket speciell amerikansk författare som publicerade en svit av oförliknekliga böcker under 1960- och 70-talet, böcker som gled omkring utanför rörelserna i tiden, som varken tillhörde beatlitteraturen eller hippierörelsen eller de övriga litterära modevågorna. I[...]

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[...]