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Trout Fishing in America | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard Brautigan
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
List Price: £7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0099747715
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780099747710
ASIN: 0099747715
Publication Date: May 1, 1997
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 Overrated then, still overrated March 11, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read this rather smug, self-congratulatory book decades ago and thought it didn't deserve the hype it received. Why it should be trundled out again is beyond me.
 quirky, literary travel writing at its best March 4, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Far from proving some critics right that his work was "for the [19]'70s", Richard Brautigan seems to be faring pretty well into the new millennium. Seems like the books are selling pretty well on Amazon, there's a new (2007) collection of essays on him, a new German publisher has taken up the books, etc. "Trout Fishing" is an American classic, "in the American grain." Idiosyncratic, teasing, surreal, yes, but some great real fishing narratives there too, up with that episode in "The Sun Also Rises" and the classic work of Roderick Haig-Brown (whose ecological writing I recommend if you don't know it). "Trout Fishing" is also a narrative of the American West, specifically Idaho--Sawtooth, River of No Return Wilderness areas, etc. Interesting to note that Brautigan was travelling through Idaho in the summer in which Hemingway killed himself there--mentioned in passing in the text; I don't remember if there is a mention of Brautigan in Ketchum. In part too a family narrative--the narrator, his wife (Virginia; "Ginny"; although mostly called "the woman who travels with me") and his one-year or so old daughter (Ianthe). All of the travels are fictionalised, one believes, but not perhaps altogether so. Anyway, this is the novel which seems to have the most going for it, is taught most (I believe) of his work world-wide. There's a lot in it--time I think for a proper definitive edition, with maps, etc. But a lot of fun too!
 Grows over the years December 12, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
After discovering my father's Richard Brautigan collection when I was 12 and reading 'A Confederate General from Big Sur' and 'The Hawkline Monster', reading "Trout Fishing in America' seemed a bit of a disappointment to me. From rich, descriptive, beautiful chapters to a seemingly unrelated, mix of random stories.
But that was when I was 12 !
In the last 16 years I have come back to it again and again and have loved it.
All the little stories, descriptions, and characters mesh together perfectly to form a most enjoyable book that doesn't lose anything over time, no matter how many times you come back to it.
Buy this book, then find a trout stream. September 1, 2003
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Loved or hated, 'Trout Fishing in America' should not be ignored - a modern classic that spawned an original slant on the post-beat novel.
The metaphor - 'Trout Fishing in America' - is explained candidly in the first three chapters, or 'seductions', then woven into the fabric of experience like a sun ray threading through a grey cloud sky. Brautigan took the 'Road Novel' format and applied it to record journeys along the highways and byways of mind.
Written during a time when many young writers, artists and politicians were committed to searching for an alternative America, the book seeks to explore landscape as a memory of former conditions. Brautigan's prose invokes a quirky and unexpected beauty in all its events in a way that no-one else has quite managed since.
I first read the book (with awe) in 1969 as an undergraduate, subsequently holding dear everything else that the man ever produced. Not his best work but essentially THE FIRST - That's why you really should purchase and read this book.
A chain of rural beat vignettes about trout and life. December 23, 1998
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
Richard Brautigan traipses across the United States looking for good trout fishing and possibly satisfaction. It's a meandering chain of vignettes with occasional plot and some lovely rural prose. A real contrast with the angrier urban beat stars: the actual time and setting of the adventures seem to trickle into the story, instead of bashing through the narrative. I think Brautigan projected a subtle sense of disappointment with the time, but contentment with the life.
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