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Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan.
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Richard Brautigan was born in Tacoma, Washington, the son of Bernard F. and Lula Mary Keho Brautigan. He married Virginia Dionne Adler, from whom he is now divorced, on 8 June 1957, and he has a daugh...
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Richard Brautigan, a San Francisco-based poet and a popular experimental novelist in the 1960s, left an uncertain critical legacy when he died, apparently by his own hand, at the age of forty-nine. Co...
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Richard Gary Brautigan was born in Tacoma, Washington, on 30 January 1935, the oldest child of Bernard F. Brautigan and Lula Mary Keho Brautigan; his father was a "common laborer," his mother a housew...
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Critical Essay by Mason Smith
Of an order apart from most books, "Trout Fishing in America" was a totally original novel plotted in the changing shapes of a heart-breaking symbol for wha...
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Critical Essay by John Clayton
I want to talk out my feelings about Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America—about Brautigan's sense of life and about his politics. Because hi...
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Critical Essay by Roger Sale
Richard Brautigan … the only writer of the sixties recommended to me by students whom I enjoyed, [is] author of the charming Trout Fishing in America, and author, a...
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Critical Essay by Brad Hayden
In [Trout Fishing in America] the trout stream is a central metaphor for the shrinking American wilderness and the social values which are associated with it. The narrato...
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Critical Essay by Pamela Ritterman
[Trout Fishing in America] has been around for a while, enjoying some underground success. It's really about trout fishing in America. There's somethin...
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Critical Essay by Albert H. Norman
Richard Brautigan's novels are as informal as an open house—everyone and everything is welcome. (p. 54)
"Trout Fishing in America" is not...
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Critical Essay by Ron Loewinsohn
One difficulty in reviewing Brautigan's books is that you're tempted to try to do in your own prose what he does in his. He makes it look so easy…...
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In the following excerpt from his short study of Brautigan, Boyer discusses the ways in which Trout Fishing in America is an attempt to transcend reality through the use of the imagination.
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