Landscapes of Language

In the late 1960s and early 1970s Richard Brautigan was a counter-cultural celebrity a writer that the would-be hip just had to read. The problem was that his fame did not rest on the considerable literary virtues of his work but to a great extent on a mediated image of cool hippie which fell out of fashion in the mid-70s. This is the first book-length study of Brautigan in English for 30 years. Its purpose is to reclaim Brautigan’s reputation. Dr. John Tanner analyses Brautigan’s fiction agains...See More