Trout Fishing in America

A Novel

De: Richard Brautigan

Narrado por: Chris Andrew Ciulla

Duración: 3 h y 29 m

Resumen del Editor

In its first time in audio and with an introduction written and read by poet Billy Collins, Trout Fishing in America is an indescribable romp, by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco through America's culture.

Richard Brautigan's world is one of gentle magic and marvelous laughter, of the incredibly beautiful and the beautifully incredible. Trout Fishing in America is a pseudonym for the miraculous. A journey that begins at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco's Washington Square, that wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways, and that ends, inevitably, with mayonnaise. Funny, wild, and sweet, Trout Fishing in America is an incomparable guidebook to the delights of exploration - both of land and mind.

Richard Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vision of American life caught the imagination of young people everywhere. His early books became required reading for the hip generation, and on its publication Trout Fishing in America, considered by many as his best novel, became an international best seller. With it Brautigan caught the public's attention and became a cult hero. By 1970 Trout Fishing in America had become the namesake of a commune, a free school, an underground newspaper, and more.

©2016 Richard Brautigan (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Too silly

I am not certain why this book made such a big splash. It is repetitive and inane to my faded 21st century ears. Fairly dull and boring. I might have have found it daring and edgy if I had read it back in the 1960s. Now, not at all.

Five Star or One Star

Some of my favorite books get either a one star review or a five star review. This is one of those books. If you get it you love it. If you don’t you hate it.

The original. Real poetry...

... from Kurt Cobain’s “spiritual uncle”.
(I made that up. Don’t Goolag it.)
The Pacific Northwest makes damp anxious beautiful Nordic men go mad, but before they go they leave us treasure.

strange, brilliant and lovable

The satire of the prose is entrancing. It dances in and out of metaphors with genius originality and style. I look forward to examine other works by this author.

TimeLess

His words are even more relevant now than they were then. He was there at the Beginning of the Communist Revolutionary Take Over of America. He was Warning All of us and few had the ears to hear back then. It’s No Wonder He Killed Himself. He was too sensitive to live in this world.

It might have missed its mark. I might have missed the mark.

I guess I just didn’t get it. The book was unique and an easy listen but I don’t think I comprehended it all.

Narrator nailed it.

Ciuvlla's voice frolicked through this tangled narrative of a 1960's California "trip." A counter-culture ramble through the looking glass.

mayonnaise

This book truly has no meaning besides what the reader deems that meaning to be. It is thoughtful and full of insight, while also being total nonsense and has no idea of what it wants to be. A phenomenal experience.

Entertaining and humorous

Very good narrator. The stories r funny , but also make you think. I recommend it highly.

Still bizarrely fun and games

I think I read this book first in 1970 when I was 16. A friend introduced me to it. I still enjoy it very much and wonder about some of its darker aspects.