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Jan 1, 1933 — Jan 1, 1984· 51 yrs

UNITED STATES AUTHOR · FICTION · GENERAL

Richard Brautigan

Also known as: Richard brautigan, Richard BRAUTIGAN

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Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30, 1935 – ca. September 16, 1984) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. His work often clinically and surrealistically employs black comedy, parody, and satire, with emotionally blunt prose describing pastoral American life intertwining with technological progress. He is best known for his novels Trout Fishing in America (1967) and In Watermelon Sugar (1968). Brautigan began his career as a poet, with his first collection being published in 1957. He made his debut as a novelist with A Confederate General from Big Sur (1964), about a seemingly delusional man who believes himself to be the descendant of a Confederate general. Brautigan would go on to publish numerous prose and poetry collections until 1982. He committed suicide in 1984.

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I saw a brand-new woman's shoe lying in the middle of a quite Honolulu intersection.

— from An unfortunate woman, 1984

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An unfortunate woman

1984

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"An Unfortunate Woman assumes the form of a traveler's journal, chronicling the protagonist's journey and his oblique ruminations on the suicide of one woman and the death from cancer of another, a close friend.". "After Richard Brautigan committed suicide, his only child, Ianthe Brautigan, found among his possessions the manuscript of An Unfortunate Woman. It had been completed more than a year earlier but was still unpublished at the time of his death. Finding it too painful to face his presence on page after page, she put the manuscript aside.". "Years later, having completed a memoir about her father's life and death, Ianthe Brautigan reread An Unfortunate Woman and now, clear-eyed, she saw that it was Richard Brautigan's work at its best, and that it had to be published."--BOOK JACKET.

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In Watermelon Sugar

1968

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IN WATERMELON SUGAR is a story of love and betrayal that takes place in an extraordinary environment where the sun shines a different color every day.

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Rommel drives on deep into Egypt

1970

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