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A Confederate General from Big Sur

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-culture, 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.

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Praise for Richard Brautigan:

‘Delicate, fantastic and very funny’ Malcolm Bradbury

‘A master of American black absurdism’ Financial Times

‘By opening yourself to [Brautigan’s books], you can get all the old fictional good things. Right there in your own imaginable home you can laugh, tingle, cry and admire’

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