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Dreaming of Babylon

A Private Eye Novel 1942

Richard Brautigan author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Canongate Books

Published:3rd Aug '17

Should be back in stock very soon

Dreaming of Babylon cover

When you hire C.Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private eye barrel. And when Card is hired to steal a body from the morgue, he needs to stop dreaming, find bullets for his gun and get there before someone else does.

Not since Trout Fishing in America has Brautigan so successfully combined his wild sense of humour with his famous poetic imagination. In this parody of the hard-boiled crime novel, the adventures of seedy, not-too-bright C.Card are a delight to both the mind and the heart.

An absolute original * * Guardian * *
A born writer * * Sunday Times * *
Richard Brautigan . . . has invented a genre * * San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle * *
Undoubtedly funny * * The Times * *
He writes with a kind of free-wheeling, zany magic * * Guardian * *

ISBN: 9781786890443

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 11mm

Weight: 145g

192 pages

Main - Canons edition