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A Confederate General from Big Sur by Richard Brautigan
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons
Jesse and Lee share a house owned by a very nice Chinese dentist, where it rains in the hall. They move to cabins on the cliffs at Big Sur where the deafening croaks of frogs can be temporarily silenced by the cry, 'Campbell's Soup'. Ultimately, we learn how the frogs are permanently silenced ...and dre ...Show more
Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942 by Richard Brautigan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons
When you hire C.Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private eye barrel. And when Card is hired to steal a body from the morgue, he needs to stop dreaming, find bullets for his gun and get there before someone else does. Not since Trout Fishing in America has Brautigan so successfully combined his ...Show more
Hawkline Monster Gothic Western by Richard Brautigan
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
PUBLISHED TO MARK THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH, THIS MODERN AMERICAN CLASSIC CELEBRATES RICHARD BRAUTIGAN AT HIS WRY, PLAYFUL BEST. In the early years of the 20th Century, a huge Victorian mansion stands isolated from the world in the Dead Hills of Eastern Oregon. It is home to Professor Hawkline, ...Show more
In Watermelon Sugar by The Estate of Richard Brautigan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different colour every day and where people travel to the length of their dreams. Rejecting the violence and hate of the old gang at the Forgotten Works, they lead gentle lives in watermelon sugar. In this book, Richard Brautigan discovers and expresses the mood ...Show more
Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970 by Richard Brautigan; Gordon Legge (Introduction by); Sarah Hall
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Contains no fewer than 62 stories that set mainly in Tacoma, Washington (where the author grew up) and in the flower-powered San Francisco of the late fifties and early sixties.
Revenge of the Lawn, the Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow it Away by Richard Brautigan
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Three unforgettable Brautigan masterpieces reissued in a one-volume omnibus edition. Originally published in 1971, these bizarre flashes of insight and humor cover everything from "A High Building in Singapore" to the "Perfect California Day". This is Brautigan's only collection of stories and includes ...Show more
So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away by Richard Brautigan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Canons | Reading Level: near fine
In a small Pacific Northwest town we meet a young man who has shot dead his best friend with a gun. The novel deals with the repercussions of this tragedy: the anguish, regret, despair and bittersweet romance. Typical of Brautigan's singular style, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away is a beautifully wri ...Show more
Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brautigan; Jarvis Cocker
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Tells the story about an ice-cold sombrero that falls inexplicably from the sky and lands in the centre of a small Southwest town.
The Abortion by Richard Brautigan
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A reclusive young man works in a San Francisco library for unpublishable books. Life's losers, an astonishing number of whom seem to be writers, can bring their manuscripts to the library, where they will be welcomed, registered and shelved. They will not be read, but they will be cherished. In comes Vi ...Show more
The Hawkline Monster : A Gothic Western by Richard Brautigan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Magic Child, a fifteen-year old Indian girl, wanders into the wrong whorehouse. She is looking for the right men to kill the monster. The monster that lives in the ice caves under the basement of Miss Hawkline's yellow house. Richard Brautigan takes the reader on a heroic, magical adventure through East ...Show more
Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan, Billy Collins
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons | Reading Level: very good
Richard Brautigan's wonderfully zany, hilarious episodic novel set amongst the rural waterways of America. Here's a journey that begins at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco's Washington Square, wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways and ends, inevitably, with ma ...Show more
Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A novel which is both playful and serious, hilarious and melancholy. It takes a journey which starts at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in Washington Square, San Francisco, and wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways.