Dreaming Of Babylon: Richard Brautigan (Canons) - Softcover

An absolute original * * Guardian * * A born writer * * Sunday Times * * Richard Brautigan . . . has invented a genre * * San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle * * Undoubtedly funny * * The Times * * He writes with a kind of free-wheeling, zany magic * * Guardian * *

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.