Bøger af Richard Brautigan

Richard Brautigan's cult classic novel reissued to mark the 30th Anniversary of his death. Introduced by Neil Gaiman

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 mood of a new generation, revealing death as a place where people travel the length of their dreams, rejecting violence and hate.The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster is a collection of nearly one hundred poems, first published in 1968.

62 of Brautigan's ultra-short stories, reissued to mark the 30th anniversary of his death. Introduced by Sarah Hall

Reissued to mark the 30th Anniversary of Brautigan's death. Introduced by Jarvis Cocker

I årene efter Anden Verdenskrig driver en 12-årig dreng rundt i en fattig forstad i Oregon. Han samler flasker, løber ærinder for naboerne eller fisker i en sø i udkanten af byen, hvor han møder forskellige sære karakterer: fordrukne savværksopsynsmænd, excentriske eneboere og et par, der tager alle deres møbler med på fisketur. Indtil en februardag i 1948, hvor et vådeskud i en nedlagt æbleplantage forandrer drengens liv for altid.I 1979 ser fortælleren tilbage på efterkrigstidens barndomsland. En verden langt væk fra forældres opsyn i et USA med motorveje, nybyggerånd, popkultur og enere uden for samfundet. Med en barnlig lethed tegner romanen et portræt af den amerikanske forestillingsverden og af volden og tragedierne i skyggen af den amerikanske drøm.Richard Brautigan (1935-1984) var en amerikansk forfatter, der brød igennem med Trout Fishing in America (1967). Så vinden ikke blæser det hele væk (opr. 1982) blev den sidste roman, han udgav i sin levetid.

"Disse formuleringer, så korte, så brillante, så legende lette i anslaget, men med en tyngde bagved, under overfladen. Sindets mørke! Viljens lys! Richard Brautigan var i sin tid underkendt, og anerkendelsen har været længe undervejs og er på tide. Han er en enestående stemme i litteraturen."– Einar Már GuðmundssonRichard Brautigan (1935-1984) var en amerikansk kultforfatter. Han udgav 10 digtsamlinger, 10 romaner og 2 novellesamlinger, og hans bøger er oversat til en lang række sprog. Især i Kina og Japan har han en stor læserskare, og han nævnes tit af Murakami som en vigtig inspirationskilde.Richard Brautigans digte er uhøjtidelige og utopisk drømmende. Et særegent mix af surrealisme, kærlighed og natur, som stadig taler direkte til dagens læsere.Jeg har besluttet at leve i en verdenhvor bøger bliver til haver i tusindvissom børn kan lege i og lære om degrønne væksters nænsomme veje.

Richard Brautigan's last novel, published in the U.S. for the first time Richard Brautigan was an original--brilliant and wickedly funny, his books resonated with the sixties, making him an overnight counterculture hero. Taken in its entirety, his body of work reveals an artistry that outreaches the literary fads that so quickly swept him up. Dark, funny, and exquisitely haunting, his final book-length fiction explores the fragile, mysterious shadowland surrounding death. Told with classic Brautigan wit, poetic style, and mordant irony, An Unfortunate Woman assumes the form of a peripatetic journal chronicling the protagonist's travels and oblique ruminations on the suicide of one woman, and a close friend's death from cancer. After Richard Brautigan committed suicide, his only child, Ianthe Brautigan, found among his possessions the manuscript of An Unfortunate Woman. It had been completed over a year earlier, but was still unpublished at the time of his death. Finding it was too painful to face her father's presence page after page, she put the manuscript aside.Years later, having completed a memoir about her father's life and death, Ianthe Brautigan reread An Unfortunate Woman, and finally, clear-eyed, she saw that it was her father's work at its best and had to be published.

This omnibus edition collects three classic novels by Richard Brautigan, "the counterculture's Mark Twain" (New York Times)."There is nothing like Richard Brautigan anywhere...This man has invented a genre, a whole new shot, a thing needed, delightful and right."—San Francisco Sunday Examiner & ChronicleA Confederate General from Big SurThe year is 1957 in a California that was a preview of things to come in America—the dawn of lifestyles that were eventually to have a profound and disturbing effect on our culture.Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942You are in San Francisco, and you need a private eye. Nobody's left but C. Card. And when you hire C. Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private-eye barrel as revealed in the fast, funny, slam-bang adventures of the seedy, not-too-bright detective.The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic WesternThe time is 1902, the setting eastern Oregon. Magic Child, a fifteen-year-old Indigenous girl, wanders into the wrong bordello looking for the right men to kill the monster that lives in the ice caves under the basement of Miss Hawkline's yellow house—sparking off a series of wild, witty, and bizarre encounters.

A novel that is set in the Pacific Northwest region of Oregon where Brautigan spent most of his childhood. It deals with the repercussions of this tragedy and its recurring theme of 'What if...' that fuels anguish, regret and self-blame as well as some darkly comic passages of bitter-sweet romance and despair.

'An absolute original' Guardian

A magical adventure through Eastern Oregon, The Hawkline Monster confirms Richard Brautigan's place as one of the twentieth century's most exciting writers

Richard Brautigan's first novel, reissued to mark the 30th anniversary of his death. Introduced by Black Francis

Written in 160 pages of a loose-leaf notebook, this book comes to terms with the death of a friend by going on a personal odyssey which zigzags through time and landscapes, from Oakland to Hawaii, and the wilds of Montana. It walks a line between fiction and memoir, between dark introspection and a lust for life.

A reclusive young man works in a San Francisco library for unpublishable books. The librarian makes her feel comfortable, and together they live in the back of the library until a trip to Tijuana changes them in ways neither of them had ever expected.