Richard Brautigan

"Revenge of the lawn" is Brautigan's only collection of short stories. In "The abortion," a California librarian and his girlfriend Viva travel to Tijuana for a series of strange encounters. In "So the wind won't blow it all away," a man recalls his twelfth summer, when he bought bullets for his gun instead of a hamburger.

Required reading for the hip generation, this one-volume edition contains two novels and a collection of poetry. The comic genius and iconoclastic vision of American life will recapture today's reader.

"Assumes the form of a traveler's journal, chronicling the protagonists's journey and his oblique ruminations on the suicide of one woman and the death from cancer of another, close friend."--Jacket.