The Abortion

Author: Richard Brautigan

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  • : $23.00 AUD
  • : 9780099437581
  • : Random House UK
  • : VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
  • : July 2002
  • : 27.99
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  • : Richard Brautigan
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Barcode 9780099437581
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Description

A reclusive young man works in a San Francisco library for unpublishable books. Life's losers, an astonishing number of whom seem to be writers, can bring their manuscripts to the library, where they will be welcomed, registered and shelved. They will not be read, but they will be cherished. In comes Vida, with her manuscript. Her book is about her gorgeous body in which she feels uncomfortable. The librarian makes her feel comfortable, and together they live in the back of the library until a trip to Tijuana changes them in ways neither of them had ever expected.

Author description

Richard Brautigan was born in Washington in 1935. During the 1950's he moved to California and became involved in the Beat Movement while developing his writing career. He died in 1984.