- Trout fishing, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), New York Times reviewed
Richard Brautigan's world is one of gentle magic and marvelous laughter, of the incredibly beautiful and the beautifully incredible. Trout Fishing in America is a pseudonym for the miraculous.
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Warm, comic, open-ended and character-led.
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Richard Brautigan
- First published
- 1967
- Pages
- 128
- Publisher
- Four Seasons Foundation, Delacorte Press, Jonathan Cape
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- English, Russian
- ISBN
- 9780224006354
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Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30, 1935 – ca. September 16, 1984) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. His work often clinically and surrealistically employs black comedy, parody, and satire, with emotionally blunt prose describing pastoral American life intertwining with technological progress. He is best known for his novels Trout Fishing in America (1967) and In Watermelon Sugar (1968). Brautigan began his career as a poet, with his first collection being published in 1957. He made his debut as a novelist with A Confederate General from Big Sur (1964), about a seemingly delusional man who believes himself to be the descendant of a Confederate general. Brautigan would g
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