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Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel

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Description for Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel Paperback. Reissued to mark the 30th Anniversary of Brautigan's death. Introduced by Jarvis Cocker Series: The Canons. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 148.

A heartbroken American writer starts a story about an ice-cold sombrero that falls inexplicably from the sky and lands in the centre of a small Southwest town. Devastated by the departure of his gorgeous Japanese girlfriend, he cannot concentrate on his writing and in frustration he throws away his beginning.

But as the man searches through his apartment for strands of his lost love's hair, the discarded story in the wastepaper basket - through some kind of elaborate origami - carries on without him. Arguments over the sombrero begin, one thing leads to another and before long all hell ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
New
Series
The Canons
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857862648
SKU
9780857862648
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Ref
99-1

About Richard Brautigan
Richard Brautigan was born in 1935 in Tacoma, Washington where he spent most of his childhood and teenage years. Sometime in the mid-Fifties Brautigan moved to San Francisco where he published his first volume of poetry. Soon after he wrote some of his most famous novels such as Trout Fishing in America, Sombrero Fallout, A Confederate General from Big Sur ... Read more

Reviews for Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel
Brautigan's comic touch is predictably unerring and the hilarious narrative development is studded with wry surreal gags

New Statesman

As always with Mr Brautigan, the more preposterous the situation, the funnier the book

Sunday Telegraph

A born writer . . . he can't be dull

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Goodreads reviews for Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel


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