Trout Fishing in America - Softcover

Brautigan, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440391253 ISBN 13: 9780440391258

Publisher: Dell, 1982

Synopsis

The author reminisces about growing up and the outdoor life, while his book becomes a living character

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Brautigan (1935-1984) 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 was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington, and moved to San Francisco in the mid-1950s when he became involved in the emerging beat scene. During the 1960s, he became one of the most prominent and prolific writers of the counterculture. Out of this period came some of his most famous works, the best known of which are Trout Fishing in America; his collection of poetry, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster; and his collection of stories, Revenge of the Lawn. Translated the world over, his works helped establish him as one of the most significant American writers of his generation. As his popularity waned towards the end of the 1970s, he became increasingly disillusioned about his work and his life. He committed suicide in 1984. He was the author of eleven novels, ten volumes of poetry, a collection of short stories, and miscellaneous nonfiction pieces, works that often employed parody, satire, and black comedy.

Review:

''There are a number of creek fishing sequences in this book which read as if Henry Miller had decided to learn about fishing from Hemingway but which will not likely amuse fisherman...The effect is more like that of a collection of newspaper columns...At times Brautigan can achieve absurdity which is Homeric...This book ought to be required reading in hippie pads.'' --Los Angeles Free Press

''A book infused with a bucolic surrealism and mournful psychedelia 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.'' --Financial Times (London)

About this edition

• Publisher: Dell
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0440391253
• ISBN 13: 9780440391258
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 182