The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings [B1201]

1999 PB in nice clean condition. On the eve of his departure from Eugene, Oregon, to San Francisco and worldly success, a twenty-one-year-old unpublished writer named Richard Brautigan gave these funny, buoyant stories and poems as a gift to Edna Webster, the beloved mother of both his best friend and his first "real" girlfriend. "When I am rich and famous, Edna," he told her, "this will be your social security.' The stories and poems show Brautigan as hopelessly lovestruck, cheerily goofy, and at his most disarmingly innocent. We see not only a young man and young artist about to bloom, but also the whole literary sensibility of the 1960s counterculture about to spread its wings and fly. Now published, 15 years after his suicide, this 'all-new' work by a youthful Richard Brautigan was written a decade before he found sudden fame with 'Trout Fishing in America'.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Essential reading for any true Brautigan devotee."; "Whoever owned my copy previously left an inscription on the title page, "This book is worth reading 100 million times." I agree (though the number might be a bit excessive). Brautigan fans won't be disappointed with these early efforts - and they will immediately recognize his trademark surreal whimsey and dreamlike narratives.. The poems and stories are short, pithy, and whimsical. Some are bizarre. And there are some points of light. There are even three experimental dramas ready to be staged in some sort of surreal theatre."; "It is a strange book. Some gave it five stars and some gave it one. They were both right :)"; "Essential EARLY Brautigan...a 'must have' for any appreciator of Brautigan's unique outlook on life."; "Nice to see the beginnings of a great writer. A pleasure to read. A creative genius."