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Original Title:	Trout Fishing in America / The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar
ISBN:	0395500761 (ISBN13: 9780395500767)
Edition Language:	English

Trout Fishing in America / The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar Paperback | Pages: 400 pages

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Title	:	Trout Fishing in America / The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar
Author	:	Richard Brautigan
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	March 1st 1989 by Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence (first published 1967)
Categories	:	Fiction. Poetry. Short Stories. Literature. Humor

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An omnibus edition of three counterculture classics by Richard Brautigan that embody the spirit of the 1960s.
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 mood of a new generation, revealing death as a place where people travel the length of their dreams, rejecting violence and hate; and The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster is a collection of nearly 100 poems, first published in 1968.

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this was the first book i ever gave my boyfriend. we read passages back and forth to each other over the phone. some of my favorite poetry is in this book!

WHAT I LEARNED FROM THIS BOOK:If you intend to invite me over to your house at eleven PM for an important meeting, but then to not arrive there yourself until one AM, then it is a good idea to leave a copy of this book out on the kitchen counter so that later instead of calling you "flaky teenage punk poet jerk"in an online public forum,I will just thank you.

"Dear Trout Fishing in America,"The silliest thing I've read in awhile, Brautigan uses metaphors that don't really make any sense but feel so original you might tend to take them at face value. Just 'cause it's easier to do so? "...The other graveyard was for the poor and it had no trees and the grass turned a flat-tire brown in the summer and stayed that way until the rain, like a mechanic, began in the late autumn.""The FBI agents watched the path, the trees, the black stump, the pool and the

I found this one randomly at the library, and I opened it to a utopian poem about a forest with deer and animals who are coexisting peacefully with computers- "watched over by machines of loving grace"- and I had to read more. The author is this crazy San Francisco hippie and Trout Fishing in America is loose sort of novel about wandering, while The Pill vs... is a collection of poems. My favorite part, though, was In Watermelon Sugar, also a novel. It seemed to take place in this

Synopsis: It sucked! Move on. Explanation when I was a teenager my fathers store was next door to a tiny, cramped little bookshop that boasted selling second-, third- , and fourthhand books of all genres, here was where I found fat paperbacks with curling covers, here were my favorites from the seventies, books that made me the romantic book lover that I am today, Go ask Alice, Hunter S Thompson, John Steinbeck, William Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, and yes Richard Brautigan, books on shelves, on

I love surreal/experimental writing so this was quite a pleasure for me. It was also a little eye-opening for me to read 'older' surrealism & if I had to sum it up I guess I'd say it's "surreal Americana". I can definitely see that some of the modern surreal/experimental writers I have read have probably taken inspiration from Brautigan.Trout Fishing in America:I saw this described somewhere as poetic prose & I agree. The work is almost like a series of short (under one page up to two

since this volume contained 3 of brautigan's books, let me break down the starred review. the three stars was primarily for 'in watermelon sugar,' which was sad, bizarre and a little haunting. i'd give 1 pithy little star to 'trout fishing in america,' which felt incredibly dusty, dated and drug-addled. 'the pill versus the springhill mine disaster' gets 2 stars for a few beautiful, gut-wrenching poems and a few really really bad ones. i'm glad i read brautigan but at least now i know he is not