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Jeff Clark's review of The Tokyo-Montana Express
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Review of The Tokyo-Montana Express

by Jeff Clark?

Here again is Brautigan. In his inimitable buffet style, serving up a diverse feast of life — outer and inner — through a gently probing intelligence. The table set across Tokyo, San Francisco, and Montana, we can sample homely adventures (buying a humidifier for the first time), comic epiphanies (mistaking fallen plum leaves for chocolate wrappers), whimsical dilemmas (the smell of a dead mouse in one's heart banished by a beautiful woman's perfume), and pure fancies (tap-dancing chickens hooked on sunflower seeds), besides a handful of canny character vignettes. There are some flossy calories here. But fans will eat it all up, and even those who decline a meal ticket to the end of the line will find many stops they won't want to miss.


Library Journal
November 15, 1980: 2430


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