The Edna Webster collection of undiscovered writings / Richard Brautigan ; introduction by Keith Abbott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brautigan, Richard.

Contributor:

Webster, Edna.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. 1999

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xvii, 124 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Collection of undiscovered writings

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Summary:

On the eve of his departure from Eugene, Oregon, to San Francisco and worldly success, a twenty-one-year-old unpublished writer named Richard Brautigan gave these funny, buoyant stories and poems as a gift to Edna Webster, the beloved mother of both his best friend and his first "real" girlfriend. "When I am rich and famous, Edna," he told her, "this will be your social security.' The stories and poems show Brautigan as hopelessly lovestruck, cheerily goofy, and at his most disarmingly innocent. We see not only a young man and young artist about to bloom, but also the whole literary sensibility of the 1960s counterculture about to spread its wings and fly.

Notes:

"A hardbound limited edition of this book has been published by Burton I. Weiss and James Musser"--T.p. verso.

"A Mariner Original."

Includes index.

ISBN:

0395974690

OCLC:

41412011