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Ultimately, we learn how the frogs are permanently silenced . . . and dreams disperse around a fire into 186,000 endings per second. In anticipating flower power and the ideals of the Sixties, Brautigan's debut novel was at least a decade before its time and remains a weird and brilliant classic.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303630090613,"sku":"9781782113799","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781782113799_be0c5557-b8cb-487a-825a-f4eabd2354b1.jpg?v=1786025467"},{"product_id":"9781782113782","title":"Revenge of the Lawn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRevenge of the Lawn\u003c\/i\u003e is Richard Brautigan in miniature and contains no fewer than 62 ultra-short stories set mainly in Tacoma, Washington (where the author grew up) and in the flower-powered San Francisco of the late fifties and early sixties. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn their compacted form, which ranges from the murderously short 'The Scarlatti Tilt' to one-page wonders like the sexually poignant poetry of 'An Unlimited Supply of 35 Millimetre Film', Brautigan's stories take us into a world where his fleeting glimpses of everyday strangeness leave stories and characters resonating in our heads long after they're gone.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304669065589,"sku":"9781782113782","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781782113782_fd968bc0-0cc3-48ad-bfae-6496b6d62ed5.jpg?v=1786025466"},{"product_id":"9781786890443","title":"Dreaming of Babylon","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen you hire C.Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private eye barrel. 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With pure inventiveness and free-wheeling energy, the counterpoint to all those angry Beatniks, Brautigan tells the story of rural America, and the hunt for a bit of trout fishing. Funny, wild and sweet, Trout Fishing in America is an incomparable guidebook to the delights of exploration - of a country and a mind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57487766815093,"sku":"9781782113805","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781782113805.jpg?v=1786354991"},{"product_id":"the-hawkline-monster","title":"The Hawkline Monster","description":"\u003cp\u003eMagic Child, a fifteen-year old Indian girl, wanders into the wrong whorehouse. She is looking for the right men to kill the monster. 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