Richard Brautigan - Richard Brautigans Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar

"There is nothing like Richard Brautigan anywhere. Perhaps, when we are very old, people will write 'Brautigans,' just as we now write novels. This man has invented a genre, a whole new shot, a thing needed, delightful, and right."

San Francisco Sunday
Examiner & Chronicle

"Trout Fishing in America taps a central metaphor of American literature and deserves to survive the time in which it was written."

Peter S.Prescott
Newsweek

"This is an important publication. These books are fun to read. By opening yourself to them, you can get all the old fictional good things. Right there in your own imaginable home you can laugh, tingle, cry and admire. And much of the style lies in Brautigan's speed of delivery."

Thomas McGuane
New York Times Book Review

Books by Richard Brautigan

NOVELS

Trout Fishing in America
A Confederate General from Big Sur
In Watermelon Sugar
The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966
The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western
Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery
Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel
Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942
The Tokyo-Montana Express
So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

POETRY

The Galilee Hitch-Hiker
Lay the Marble Tea
The Octopus Frontier
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Please Plant This Book
The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster
Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt
Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork
June 30th, June 30th

SHORT STORIES

Revenge of the Lawn

For Jack Spicer and Ron Loewinsohn

The Cover for Trout Fishing in America 1

Knock on Wood (Part One) 3

Knock on Wood (Part Two) 4

Red Lip 6

The Kool-Aid Wino 8

Another Method of Making Walnut Catsup 11

Prologue to Grider Creek 13

Grider Creek 14

The Ballet for Trout Fishing in America 15

A Walden Pond for Winos 17

Tom Martin Creek 19

Trout Fishing on the Bevel 20

Sea, Sea Rider 22

The Last Year the Trout Came up Hayman Creek 27

Trout Death by Port Wine 29

The Autopsy of Trout Fishing in America 33

The Message 34

Trout Fishing in America Terrorists 37

Trout Fishing in America with the FBI 41

Worsewick 43

The Shipping of Trout Fishing in America Shorty to Nelson Algren 45

The Mayor of the Twentieth Century 48

On Paradise 49

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 51

The Salt Creek Coyotes 53

The Hunchback Trout 55

The Teddy Roosevelt Chingader' 58

Footnote Chapter to "The Shipping of Trout Fishing in America Shorty to Nelson Algren" 63

The Pudding Master of Stanley Basin 64

Room 208, Hotel Trout Fishing in America 66

The Surgeon 71

A Note on the Camping Craze that is Currently Sweeping America 73

A Return to the Cover of This Book 76

The Lake Josephus Days 78

Trout Fishing on the Street of Eternity 80

The Towel 86

Sandbox Minus John Dillinger Equals What? 87

The Last Time I Saw Trout Fishing in America 89

In the California Bush 92

The Last Mention of Trout Fishing in America Shorty 96

Witness for Trout Fishing in America Peace 98

Footnote Chapter to "Red Lip" 100

The Cleveland Wrecking Yard 102

A Half-Sunday Homage to a Whole Leonardo da Vinci 108

Trout Fishing in America Nib 109

Prelude to the Mayonnaise Chapter 111

The Mayonnaise Chapter 112

There are seductions that should be
in the Smithsonian Institute,
right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.

Trout Fishing in America

Richard Brautigan was born January 30, 1935, in the Pacific Northwest. He was the author of ten novels, nine volumes of poetry, and a collection of short stories. He lived for many years in San Francisco, and toward the end of his life he divided his time between a ranch in Montana and Tokyo. Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and early 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vision of American life caught the imagination of young people everywhere. Brautigan came of age during the Haight-Ashbury period and has been called "the last of the Beats." His early books became required reading for the hip generation, and Trout Fishing in America sold two million copies throughout the world. Brautigan was a god of the counterculture, a phenomenon who saw his star rise to fame and fortune, only to plummet during the next decade. Driven to drink and despair, he committed suicide in Bolinas, California, at the age of forty-nine.

This book is for Miss Marcia Pacaud of Montreal, Canada.

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace 1

Horse Child Breakfast 2

General Custer Versus the Titanic 3

The Beautiful Poem 4

Private Eye Lettuce 5

A Boat 6

The Shenevertakesherwatchoff Poem 7

Karma Repair Kit: Items 1 - 4 8

Oranges 9

San Francisco 10

Xerox Candy Bar 11

Discovery 12

Widow's Lament 13

The Pomegranate Circus 14

The Winos on Potrero Hill 15

The First Winter Snow 16

Death Is a Beautiful Car Parked Only 17

Surprise 18

Your Departure Versus the Hindenburg 19

Education 20

Love Poem 21

The Fever Monument 22

At the California Institute of Technology 23

A Lady 24

"Star-Spangled" Nails 25

The Pumpkin Tide 26

Adrenalin Mother 27

The Wheel 28

Map Shower 29

A Postcard from Chinatown 30

The Double-Bed Dream Gallows 31

December 30 32

The Sawmill 33

The Way She Looks at It 34

Yes, the Fish Music 35

The Chinese Checker Players 36

I've Never Had It Done so Gently Before 37

Our Beautiful West Coast Thing 38

Man 39

The Silver Stairs of Ketchikan 40

Hollywood 41

Your Necklace Is Leaking 42

Haiku Ambulance 43

It's Going Down 44

Alas, Measured Perfectly 45

Hey, Bacon! 46

The Rape of Ophelia 47

A CandleLion Poem 48

I Feel Horrible. She Doesn't 49

Cyclops 50

Flowers for Those You Love 51

The Galilee Hitch-Hiker 52

It's Raining in Love 61

Poker Star 63

To England 64

I Lie Here in a Strange Girl's Apartment 65

Hey! This Is What It's All About 66

My Nose Is Growing Old 67

Crab Cigar 68

The Sidney Greenstreet Blues 69

Comets 70

I Live in the Twentieth Century 71

The Castle of the Cormorants 72

Lovers 73

Sonnet 74

Indirect Popcorn 75

Star Hole 76

Albion Breakfast 77

Let's Voyage into the New American House 78

November 3 79

The Postman 80

A Mid-February Sky Dance 81

The Quail 82

1942 83

Milk for the Duck 84

The Return of the Rivers 85

A Good-Talking Candle 86

The Horse That Had a Flat Tire 87

Kafka's Hat 89

Nine Things 90

Linear Farewell, Nonlinear Farewell 91

Mating Saliva 92

Sit Comma and Creeley Comma 93

Automatic Anthole 94

The Symbol 95

I Cannot Answer You Tonight in Small Portions 96

Your Catfish Friend 97

November 24 98

Horse Race 99

The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster 100

After Halloween Slump 101

Gee, You're so Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain 102

The Nature Poem 103

The Day They Busted the Grateful Dead 104

The Harbor 105

The Garlic Meat Lady from 106

In a Cafe 107

Boo, Forever 108

The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster