Revenge of the Lawn By Richard Brautigan

The Independent - London | June 19, 2009| | Copyright

BOOK OF A LIFETIME

Many attempts have been made to define Richard Brautigan's work - Beat, scat, Zen Buddhist, magical-realist, hippie, cult, outsider, nave, pacific, lunatic. Nowhere is his work's resistance to categorical designation more apparent than in Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970. I came across this oddest collection in my late teens, which might be a perfect age to discover Brautigan. The vim and originality of tones and images, the berserk plots and off-the- wall incidents, seemed perfectly pitched to appeal to a rebellious, youthful sense of humour. The language was ...

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