Brautigan's comic touch is predictably unerring and the hilarious narrative development is studded with wry surreal gags (New Statesman)
As always with Mr Brautigan, the more preposterous the situation, the funnier the book (Sunday Telegraph)
A born writer . . . he can't be dull (Sunday Times)
His style and wit transmit so much energy that energy itself becomes the message. Only a hedonist could cram so much life onto a single page (Newsweek)
Delicate, fantastic and very funny . . . A highly individual style, a fertile, active inventiveness . . . It's cool, joyous, lucid and pleasant to read
Defies reality with complete success an original and charming view of the world
If you like a little eccentricity and humour in your fiction, this novel of tiny punchy chapters is a revelation (Bath Life) --New Statesman
A heartbroken American writer starts a story about an ice-cold sombrero that falls inexplicably from the sky and lands in the centre of a small Southwest town. Devastated by the departure of his gorgeous Japanese girlfriend, he cannot concentrate on his writing and in frustration he throws away his beginning.
But as the man searches through his apartment for strands of his lost love's hair, the discarded story in the wastepaper basket - through some kind of elaborate origami - carries on without him. Arguments over the sombrero begin, one thing leads to another and before long all hell breaks loose in the normally sleep town.
Brautigan's fertile imagination twists and pulls at the ensuing chaos to come up with a tender, moving, surreal and incredibly funny tale that is told by a writer at the very peak of his creative powers.
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Vendeur : Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, Royaume-Uni
Original Wraps. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket, as Issued. First Thus. First impression of the first Arena paperback edition. The book was first published in paperback in the UK by Picador in 1978, and in hardcover by Jonathan Cape in 1977. ***Near fine in colour-illustrated glossy card covers. The covers are clean and unmarked, except for the cover price neatly blacked out to the bottom of the back cover. No creases or tears, and no reading creases to the spine. Spine tight. No fading. Covers crisp and bright. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. No foxing. Pages clean. Printed on good quality paper, unlike the contemporary Picador editions. ***187 pages plus five pages of publisher's adverts at the back of the book. 194mm x 124mm. ***'Heartbreak and holocaust - only Brautigan could blend the two with so much humour, irony and grace. ***'As always with Mr Brautigan, the more preposterous the situations, the funnier the book' - Sunday Telegraph (Quote and general review quote taken from the back cover) ***First impression of the first Arena edition in very nice collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. N° de réf. du vendeur 6797
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