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5.0 out of 5 stars A beatifully written classic., 11 Jun 2008

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One of my favourite Brautigan novels.An intensely sad book that is a masterpiece of simplicity.The characters deal with loss; of Willard and his Bowling Trophies, of talent, of love, all in their different ways and all within a beautifully written mystery.And, of course, it's funny too, laugh out loud funny at times, as all Brautigan's books were. It's absolutely archetypal of a certain kind of '70's US art and although stylistically different it compares with the work of Thomas Mcguane, Jim Harrison and Joan Didion in hiding its serious themes behind a sly humour and elegant writing style.Also comparable to the '70's films of Robert Altman such as Brewster Mcloud and particularly The Long Goodbye in both theme and tone. A truly beautiful book that manages to convey in 167 pages what most authors fail to do in twice and thrice that number.It perfectly encapsulates the sadness and the sense that along with the bad something good had been lost when the West turned its back on the past during the Sixties Revolution. As everything began to fall apart people were left with the question of what to do.Everything or nothing? Action or ennui? Disco or Tim Buckley? The Towering Inferno or Two Lane Blacktop? Sometimes things change and there's nothing you can do about it. Buy this book.

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