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.
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Richard Brautigan was born in Tacoma, Washington where he spent much of his youth, before moving to San Francisco where he became involved with other writers in the Beat Movement. During the Sixties he became one of the most prolific and prominent members of the counter-cultural movement, and wrote some of his most famous novels including Trout Fishing in America, Sombrero Fallout and A Confederate General from Big Sur. He was found dead in 1984, aged 49, beside a bottle of alcohol and a .44 calibre gun. His daughter, Ianthe Brautigan, has written a biography of her father, You Can't Catch Death.
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卡夫卡曾说:“我喜欢美国人,因为他们健康、乐观。”
有一次天将黑了,我还没回家,正在河里洗着我钓上来的鳟鱼。我突然想走到穷人的墓地去,拔些草,再把罐头瓶子和易拉罐收集起来,还有那些墓碑,那些枯萎的花,那些地里的虫子、野草和土块,把它们带回家,与鱼钩钳在一起,再挂上一只苍蝇,然后扔向天空,看着它飘过层层白云,去往夜空中的繁星。
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