Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar

Richard Brautigan

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1989 - Fiction - 358 pages

Three counterculture classics by Richard Brautigan, literary icon of the 1960s, together in a single volume, including the unforgettable Trout Fishing in America.

Trout Fishing in America is by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco through America's rural waterways.

In Watermelon Sugar expresses the mood of a new generation, revealing death as a place where people travel the length of their dreams, rejecting violence and hate.

The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster is a collection of nearly one hundred poems, first published in 1968.

Contents

• The Cover for Trout Fishing in America: 1
• The KoolAid Wino: 8
• Grider Creek: 14
• Trout Fishing on the Bevel: 20
• The Last Year the Trout Came up Hayman Creek: 27
• The Autopsy of Trout Fishing in America: 33
• Trout Fishing in America with the FBI: 41
• The Mayor of the Twentieth Century: 48
• The Hunchback Trout: 55
• Footnote Chapter to The Shipping of Trout Fishing: 63
• All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace: 1
• The Shenevertakesherwatchoff Poem: 7
• Widows Lament: 13
• Your Departure Versus the Hindenburg: 19
• StarSpangled Nails: 25
• The DoubleBed Dream Gallows: 31
• 23: 9
• 25: 25

About the author

Richard Brautigan (1935-1984) was a god of the counterculture and the author of ten novels, nine volumes of poetry, and a collection of short stories.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar; Seymour Lawrence Book
• Author: Richard Brautigan
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1989
• ISBN: 0395500761, 9780395500767
• Length: 358 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Literary; Literary Collections / Essays; Poetry / European / General; Poetry / General; Sports & Recreation / Fishing