Also by Richard Brautigan
NOVELS AND NOVELLAS
A Confederate General from Big Sur (1964)
Trout Fishing in America (1967)
In Watermelon Sugar (1968)
The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 (1971)
The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western (1974)
Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery (1975)
Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942 (1977)
The Tokyo-Montana Express (1980)
So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away (1982)
An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey (1982, but first published in 1994)
POETRY
The Return of the Rivers (1958)
The Galilee Hitch-Hiker (1958)
Lay the Marble Tea (1959)
The Octopus Frontier (1960)
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (1963)
Please Plant This Book (1968)
The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster (1969)
Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt (1970)
Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork (1971)
June 30, June 30 (1978)
SHORT STORIES
Revenge of the Lawn (1971)
This edition published in 2012 by Canongate Books
Copyright © Richard Brautigan, 1976
Introduction copyright © Jarvis Cocker, 2012
The moral rights of the authors have been asserted
First published in Great Britain in 1998 by
Canongate Books Ltd, 14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE
This digital edition first published in 2012 ny Canongate Books
The Canons editorial board: Ailah Ahmed, Jamie Byng, Liz Calder, Geoff Dyer, Nick Lezard, John Seaton and Erica Wagner
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library
ISBN 978 0 85786 264 8
eISBN 978 0 85786 762 9
Typeset in Goudy by Palimpsest Book Production Ltd, Falkirk, Stirlingshire
This digital edition first published in 2012 by Canongate Books
This novel is for Junichirō Tanizaki, who wrote The Key and Diary of a Mad Old Man
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