- Fiction, Death, Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Death
"An Unfortunate Woman assumes the form of a traveler's journal, chronicling the protagonist's journey and his oblique ruminations on the suicide of one woman and the death from cancer of another, a close friend.".
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- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Richard Brautigan
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 119
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd, St. Martin's Griffin, St. Martin's Press
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780312262433
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“I saw a brand-new woman's shoe lying in the middle of a quite Honolulu intersection.”
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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