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It is 1979, and a man is recalling the events of his twelfth summer, when he bought bullets for his gun instead of a hamburger. Written just before his death, this novel foreshadowed Brautigan's suicide. It was originally published in 1982.
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Richard Brautigan was born in Tacoma, Washington where he spent much of his youth, before moving to San Francisco where he became involved with other writers in the Beat Movement. During the sixties he became one of the most prolific and prominent members of the counter-cultural movement, and wrote some of his most famous novels including Trout Fishing in America, Sombrero Fallout and A Confederate General from Big Sur.He was found dead in 1984, aged 49, beside a bottle of alcohol and a .44 calibre gun. His daughter, Ianthe Brautigan, has written a biography of her father, You Can't Catch Death.
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Poetic, gently eccentric and deeply poignant, the story is a fitting swansong for his life. * * The Times * * Life is taken back to bare essentials in his books, never more so than here but life is never so rich. If someone ever made a movie of this, good people would watch it a hundred times and never tire of it. * * Beat Scene * * The verbal humour and zany charm of the book remain quite irresistible. * * Daily Telegraph * * Brautigan gets you drunk on similes, knocks you out with exquisite turns of phrase and leaves you with an ending that hits the entire novel out of the ballpark ... Amazing. * * Uncut * *
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- PublisherDelacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0440081955
- ISBN 13 9780440081951
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages131
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