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Three counterculture classics by Richard Brautigan, literary icon of the 1960s, together in a single volume, including the unforgettable Trout Fishing in America.
Trout Fishing in America is by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco through America's rural waterways.
In Watermelon Sugar expresses the…
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I was fourteen when I was introduced to my next pick. Our teacher read aloud The Kool-Aid Wino and The Cleveland Wrecking Yard, and I was lucky enough to find a copy at the mall as I read, bang! Trout Fishing in America Terrorists, bang! The Hunchback Trout, and bang! Sandbox Minus John Dillinger Equals What?
Brautigan grew up neglected and received involuntary electroshock treatments because he was hungry and threw a rock through a police station window. He never went to college but taught college classes. His imagination gave him a reason to live. It gave…
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