Brautigan, Richard

The Hawkline monster : a gothic western by Richard Brautigan ( Book )
20 editions published between 1974 and 2009 in English and French and held by 1,346 libraries worldwide
The year is 1902; the setting, Eastern Oregon. A 15-year-old Indian girl wanders into a whorehouse looking for men to kill the monster that lives in the ice caves under the basement of Miss Hawkline's house. Armed with a trunkful of guns, two men set off in search of the Hawkline Monster. What follows is a series of unusual and often comic encounters in this parody of two literary genres.

So the wind won't blow it all away by Richard Brautigan ( Book )
27 editions published between 1982 and 2008 in 7 languages and held by 1,288 libraries worldwide
Focused around the death of a young boy in a shooting accident in a small western Oregon town in the 1940s, So the Wind Won't Blow it all Away was the last of the author's novels published before his death in 1984.

Trout fishing in America by Richard Brautigan ( Book )
94 editions published between 1967 and 2010 in 17 languages and held by 1,082 libraries worldwide
A novel which is both playful and serious, hilarious and melancholy. It takes a journey which starts at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in Washington Square, San Francisco, and wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways.

The abortion : an historical romance 1966 by Richard Brautigan ( Book )
28 editions published between 1971 and 2002 in 3 languages and held by 1,056 libraries worldwide
A reclusive young man works in a San Francisco library for unpublishable books. Life's losers, an astonishing number of whom seem to be writers, can bring their manuscripts to the library, where they will be welcomed, registered and shelved. They will not be read, but they will be cherished. In comes Vida, with her manuscript. Her book is about her gorgeous body, in which she feels uncomfortable. The librarian makes her feel comfortable, and together they live in the back of the library until a trip to Tijuana changes them in ways neither of them had ever expected.

Revenge of the lawn : stories, 1962-1970 by Richard Brautigan ( Book )
26 editions published between 1971 and 2006 in English and German and held by 1,039 libraries worldwide

An unfortunate woman : a journey by Richard Brautigan ( Book )
9 editions published between 2000 and 2001 in English and held by 1,010 libraries worldwide
"Assumes the form of a traveler's journal, chronicling the protagonists's journey and his oblique ruminations on the suicide of one woman and the death from cancer of another, close friend." -- Jacket.

The Tokyo-Montana express by Richard Brautigan ( Book )
21 editions published between 1979 and 2004 in 4 languages and held by 997 libraries worldwide
A collection of one hundred and thirty-one "stations" inspired by memories of Japan and Montana, January-July 1976, that seem to form a somewhat autobiographical work. According to the author, each section of the novel represented a separate stop along a journey, a station along a metaphorical rail line joining Japan and Montana. Common themes running through these stations include Brautigan's own disillusionment with aging, the search for identity, the diversity of human nature, and cultural differences between Montana and Japan.

A Confederate general from Big Sur by Richard Brautigan ( Book )
49 editions published between 1964 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 983 libraries worldwide

Sombrero fallout : a Japanese novel by Richard Brautigan ( Book )
19 editions published between 1976 and 2001 in 3 languages and held by 957 libraries worldwide
Features two interrelated stories. The first, about a sombrero falling from the sky and its affect on humanity. In the second, the narrator of the first story thinks about his Japanese ex-lover who has recently moved out of his apartment.

Dreaming of Babylon : a private eye novel, 1942 by Richard Brautigan ( Book )
17 editions published between 1977 and 2009 in English and Finnish and held by 896 libraries worldwide
It is early 1942. You are in San Francisco, and you need a private eye. Sam Spade is rumored to be in Istanbul. Philip Marlowe is up at Little Fawn Lake investigating the disappearance of Mrs. Derace Kingsley. Lew Archer is in the army. Who's left? Nobody but C. Card. You haven't heard of C. Card? That's all right. Nobody has. When you hire C. Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private eye barrel. But you won't be bored.