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In Watermelon Sugar (Paperback)

by Richard Brautigan (Author)
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  • Paperback: 142 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (4 Jul 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099437597
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099437598
  • Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.8 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 116,677 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Delicate, fantastic and very funny...A highly individual style, a fertile, active inventiveness...It's cool, joyous, lucid and pleasant to read' Malcolm Bradbury


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Death is a place where the sun shines a different colour every day and where people travel to the length of their dreams. Rejecting the violence and hate of the old gang at the Forgotten Works, they lead gentle lives in watermelon sugar. Brautigan expresses the mood of a new generation.

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most beautiful books written, 23 April 2002
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Richard brautigan has an amazing way with words. He has an ability to say exactly what you are feeling, yet are incapable of expressing, in the simplest way. He made me remember the beauty in a string of letters. "Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love". I have read most of his books and this is my favourite by far. It was one of the first I read and it got me hooked.
This book is very surreal but at the same time it is possible to relate to it. To understand what he was trying to tell us about his fictional community, iDEATH. That it represents the death of the individual in society.
It is a very simple, beautiful book that I can read over and over and see in a different way every time.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Special, very special, book, 18 Jun 2004
Richard Brautigan's way with words is so simple and yet so touching- he knows exactly where to hit every time. 'In watermelon Sugar' converges planes of surrealism and childlike beauty, with the simple and the true, and does it extremely successfully. I first found his books in a Kafka bookshop in Prague and remember being so pleased with them after reading them that I felt smug and content for days! A trite thing to say no doubt but Brautigan has that effect on you.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars One of Brautigan's best, 12 Dec 2006
By Douglas Traill (Edinburgh, Scotland.) - See all my reviews
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A truly beatiful book that has to be in my Top 10 of all time.
A story about an idyllic community that is blighted by some tragic events, yet still manges to retain a sense of happiness and harmony.
I remember my father being surprised that I saw so much beauty in this book, because the things that he took from it were the upset, suffering, and death. And to an extent I can see his point of view, but for me the positive outways the negative. Maybe he's just a bit more cynical than me.
I for one love it and always will.
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