ISBN: 0547525532 9780547525532

Category: Fiction / Literary

Page count: 400

<b>Collected in one volume, three counterculture classics that embody the spirit of the 1960s.</b><br>  <br> Included here are three great works by the incomparable Richard Brautigan:<br>  <br><i>Trout Fishing in America</i> is by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco through the country’s rural waterways—a book “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” (<i>Financial Times</i>).<br>  <br><i>The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster</i> is a collection of nearly one hundred poems, first published in 1968.<br>  <br> And <i>In Watermelon Sugar</i> expresses the mood of a new generation, revealing death as a place where people travel the length of their dreams, rejecting violence and hate.<br><br> During his lifetime, <i>Look </i>magazine observed, “Brautigan is joining Hesse, Golding, Salinger, and Vonnegut as a literary magus to the literate young.” A uniquely imaginative writer of the Beat movement who became an icon of the hippie era, he is still a favorite of readers today.<br>