Volume 16, Number 7 · April 22, 1971
Brautigan Was Here
By Robert M. Adams
The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966
by Richard Brautigan
Simon & Schuster, 206 pp., $1.95 (paper)
A Confederate General from Big Sur
by Richard Brautigan
Grove, 160 pp., $1.95
Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, In Watermelon Sugar
(Three works in one volume), by Richard Brautigan
Delacorte, 416 pp., $6.95
The Brautigan phenomenon, California filtered through Brautigan, has been working itself out, in prose and verse, for several years now. How far has it got, and where is it going? Like the hitchhikers who stand beside Route 1 thumbing rides simultaneously in both directions, it is a distinctive phenomenon which is hard to assess. Still, Brautigan has now moved publishers—whether up, down, or sideways—from City Lights Press to Simon and Schuster, and the occasion is obviously ripe for inquiry.
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