Trout Fishing in America
Trout Fishing in America
Author: Richard Brautigan
Desc: Richard Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vision of American life caught the imagination of young people everywhere. He 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 on its publication Trout Fishing in America became an international bestseller. An indescribable romp the novel is best summed up in one word: mayonnaise. This new edition includes an introduction by the poet Billy Collins who first encountered Brautigan’s work as a student in California.