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Book still in a good condition. >>> Although the title can be deceiving, Troutfishing in America by Richard Brautigan is not an outdoor manual, but rather a novella consisting of experimental prose with no clear storyline or plot. Using Surrealist descriptions and disruptive writing the chapters are made up of ancedotes mostly involving the author's childhood in the Pacific Northwest, his adult life in San Francisco and a camping trip to Idaho with his wife and infant in 1961, when most of the book was written. The title itself is woven throughout the book and used in multiple ways: as the name of a hotel, a character, to describe a prank, as a noun, and as a state of mind - illustrating how one phrase can serve many purposes. Following in the tradition of Thoreau and Hemingway, both fisherman and lovers of the natural world, Brautigan uses nature to search for the meaning of life, then expresses what he has learned through his story. He is troubled by the commercialization of the world and the shrinking of the American Wilderness and the social values that are associated with a pastoral life, and searches for enlightenment and self-understanding in the natural world.
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