- Fiction, Literature, Manners and customs, Fiction, short stories (single author)
**Overview:** Three unforgettable Brautigan masterpieces reissued in a one-volume omnibus edition : Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away
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- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Richard Brautigan
- First published
- 1971
- Pages
- 173
- Publisher
- Pocket, Rebel Pr, Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780862417239
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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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