| The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writing Contributor(s): Brautigan, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0395974690 ISBN-13: 9780395974698 Publisher: Mariner Books Classics OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1999 Annotation: Published 15 years after his suicide, this all-new, youthful work by Brautigan, was written a decade before he found sudden fame with "Trout Fishing in America". |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | American - General - Fiction | Humorous - General |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| LCCN: 99032044 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.51" W x 8.24" (0.37 lbs) 144 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1960's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: On the eve of his departure from Eugene, Oregon, to San Francisco and worldly success, a twenty-one-year-old unpublished writer named Richard Brautigan gave these funny, buoyant stories and poems as a gift to Edna Webster, the beloved mother of both his best friend and his first real girlfriend. When I am rich and famous, Edna, he told her, this will be your social security.' The stories and poems show Brautigan as hopelessly lovestruck, cheerily goofy, and at his most disarmingly innocent. We see not only a young man and young artist about to bloom, but also the whole literary sensibility of the 1960s counterculture about to spread its wings and fly. |
Contributor Bio(s): Brautigan, Richard: - 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. |