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The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writing Paperback - 1999
by Richard Brautigan; Introduction by Keith Abbott
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".
Summary
On the eve of his departure from Eugene, Oregon, to San Francisco and worldly success, a twenty-one-year-old unpublished writer named Richard Brautigan gave these funny, buoyant stories and poems as a gift to Edna Webster, the beloved mother of both his best friend and his first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.
Details
- Title The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writing
- Author Richard Brautigan; Introduction by Keith Abbott
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Boston
- Date 1999-09-16
- Features Index
- ISBN 9780395974698 / 0395974690
- Weight 0.37 lbs (0.17 kg)
- Dimensions 8.24 x 5.51 x 0.4 in (20.93 x 14.00 x 1.02 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99032044
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.54
Media reviews
"Here and there, in poems such as the unknown dreamer' and all the cities at once,' the bright promise of better things to come shines through like diamonds among the treacle. " -- REVIEWED BY William Hjortsberg The San Francisco Chronicle
"These early poems reveal the young Brautigan-in-formation tinkering with metaphor and trying on styles--a Beat knockoff here, a stab at Hemingway there. But they also reveal that Brautigan's peculiar comic collision of literary allusion, morbid drama and colloquial speech was already his own." Los Angeles Weekly
"These early poems reveal the young Brautigan-in-formation tinkering with metaphor and trying on styles--a Beat knockoff here, a stab at Hemingway there. But they also reveal that Brautigan's peculiar comic collision of literary allusion, morbid drama and colloquial speech was already his own." Los Angeles Weekly
Citations
- Booklist, 09/01/1999, Page 56
- New York Times, 11/07/1999, Page 26
- Publishers Weekly, 08/30/1999, Page 53
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