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In Watermelon Sugar
- Author
- Richard Brautigan
- Narrator
- Bronson Pinchot
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 25 April 2017
- Run Time
- 2 hours 23 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different color 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.
Critics Review
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“A charming and original work…The parable itself is extremely relevant.”
Times (London)
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“Richard Brautigan is joining Hesse, Golding, Salinger, and Vonnegut as a literary magus to the literate young.”
Look
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“Delicate, fantastic, and very funny…A highly individual style, a fertile, active inventiveness…It’s cool, joyous, lucid, and pleasant to read.”
Malcolm Bradbury, author of The History Man
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Details
- Author
- Richard Brautigan
- Narrator
- Bronson Pinchot
- Duration
- 2 hours 23 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 April 2017
- ISBN
- 9781504759618
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different color 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.
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