About In Watermelon Sugar
iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different colour every day and where people travel to the length of their dreams. Rejecting the violence and hate of the old gang at the Forgotten Works, they lead gentle lives in watermelon sugar. In this book, Richard Brautigan discovers and expresses the mood of the counterculture generation.
Detail
Complete Title: In Watermelon Sugar
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 144
Publication Time: January 1, 2002
Publisher: VINTAGE
ISBN: 0099437597
ISBN13: 9780099437598
About Richard Brautigan
Richard Brautigan
Richard Brautigan was an American novelist, poet, and short-story writer. Born in Tacoma, Washington, he moved to San Francisco in the 1950s and began publishing poetry in 1957. He started writing novels in 1961 and is probably best known for his early work Trout Fishing in America. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1984.
Reviews In Watermelon Sugar
Oriana
I almost can’t believe how dazzling this book is. In Watermelon Sugar is 138 pages long — many of which are half pages at best — and yet manages to whip up a stunning, strange, surreal little worl…
Ahmad Sharabiani
(Book 393 from 1001 books) – In Watermelon Sugar, Richard BrautiganIn Watermelon Sugar is an American post-apocalyptic novel by Richard Brautigan written in 1964 and published in 1968. Set in the afte…
Vit Babenco
In the hippie world life obeys its own laws. And those who live in a watermelon fairytale are lucky because watermelon sugar is a universal stuff that can serve all purposes in life and satisfy all fa…
Paul
Bizarre and surreal pretty much sums this up and I know many people see this as utopian, a Garden of Eden setting in what seems to be a post-apocalyptic world. Brautigan indicated that Bolinas, the to…
Robin
I don’t know, friends. There’s something about Richard Brautigan. Something so gentle, and alive, and surprising, and bizarre, and kind, and understanding, and childlike, and whimsical, and dark, and…
Mario the lone bookwolf
One of the worst books I have ever read, completely overrated, this seems to be one of these cases of a too subtle, culturally important, snob, hyped by pseudo-intellectuals novels without any real wo…
مجیدیام
این کتاب تبدیل شد به یکی از خاصترین و عجیبترین کتابهایی که به عمرم خوندم! و اعتراف میکنم که خوب نفهمیدمش…
Emily B
This quote hit me ‘Everything is reflected in the statue of mirrors if you stand there long enough and empty your mind of everything else but the mirrors, and you must be careful not to want anythin…
Dawn
Softly we are Richard Brautigan and we have nothing to do with hippies and we fish for trout and keep some of the trout in there because we are Richard and we like to look at them. It suits us to have…