Click on the covers for more information on the different editions, including their availability. If you cannot view the image, download the most recent version of Flash Player Richard Brautigan by Allan I. Shatkin? Originally published separately by Four Seasons Foundation in San Francisco and later in paperback by Dell (1969), these avant-garde works now popular with college students are amusing and readable. The two novels are reminiscent of Kenneth Patchen's The Journal of Albion Moonlight (Assoc. Bks., 1968) in their delineation of freaky people in an extraordinary world. Life and love are treated with uninhibited imagination, often engendering unexpected similes ("... a roll of toilet paper, so old it looked like a relative, perhaps a cousin, to the Magna Carta"). The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, a volume of selected poems, abounds in surrealistic humor and startling earthiness. A good addition to large fiction collections. Library Journal April 15, 1970: 1500 Reprinted in Library Journal Book Review 1970. Ed. Judith Serebnick. New York and London: Sowker, 1970. 703.

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