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.
Poetic, gently eccentric and deeply poignant
* * The Times * *
[His] most substantial novel . . . Brautigan is especially adept at
evoking the everyday magic of childhood
* * Times Literary Supplement * *
The verbal humour and zany charm of the book remain quite
irresistible
* * Daily Telegraph * *
Strikingly original . . . [Brautigan] is the lone eccentric on the
busy city intersection staring at the sky and finding patterns in
the clouds, while everyone else shuffles along staring at the
ground
* * Guardian * *
Brautigan gets you drunk on similes, knocks you out with exquisite
turns of phrase . . . Amazing
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