Trout Fishing in America [Richard Brautigan]

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Trout Fishing in America

Richard Brautigan

Delta Books, NY. 1969.First Delta paperback printing. Some wear along the spine, soiling to the edge of the text block, but otherwise quite clean for the age. Binding tight. A very good copy.

From the publisher:

"Richard Brautigan's world is one of gentle magic and marvelous laughter, of the incredibly beautiful and the beautifully incredible. Trout Fishing in America is a pseudonym for the miraculous. A journey which begins at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco's Washington Square, which wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways, and which ends, inevitably, with mayonnaise. Funny, wild, and sweet, Trout Fishing in America is an incomparable guidebook to the delights of exploration -- both of land and mind."

Another classic available to you, cheaply. I think Brautigan's cultural prominence is fading, and that is sad. He represented a wild freedom that is almost fully gone from our world; maybe we can find our way back? Start here.