A Confederate General From Big Sur. Richard Brautigan

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       A Confederate General from Big Sur

      RICHARD BRAUTIGAN was born in Tacoma, Washington where he spent much of his youth, before moving to San Francisco where he became involved with other writers in the Beat Movement. During the Sixties he became one of the most prolific and prominent members of the counter-culture, and wrote some of his most famous novels including Trout Fishing in America, Sombrero Fallout and A Confederate General from Big Sur. He was found dead in 1984, aged 49, beside a bottle of alcohol and a .44 calibre gun. His daughter, Ianthe Brautigan, has written a biography of her father, You Can’t Catch Death.

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      Praise for Richard Brautigan:

      ‘Delicate, fantastic and very funny’ Malcolm Bradbury

      ‘A master of American black absurdism’ Financial Times

      ‘By opening yourself to [Brautigan’s books], you can get all the old fictional good things. Right there in your own imaginable home you can laugh, tingle, cry and admire’

       New York Times Book Review

      Also by Richard Brautigan

      NOVELS AND NOVELLAS

      Trout Fishing in America (1967)

      In Watermelon Sugar (1968)

      The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 (1971)

      The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western (1974)

      Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery (1975)

      Sombrero Fallout (1976)

      Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942 (1977)

      The Tokyo-Montana Express (1980)

      So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away (1982)

      An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey (1982, but first published in 1994)

      POETRY

      The Return of the Rivers (1958)

      The Galilee Hitch-Hiker (1958)

      Lay the Marble Tea (1959)

      The Octopus Frontier (1960)

      All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (1963)

      Please Plant This Book (1968)

      The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster (1969)

      Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt (1970)

      Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork (1971)

      June 30, June 30 (1978)

      SHORT STORIES

      Revenge of the Lawn (1971)

       A Confederate Generalfrom Big Sur

      Richard Brautigan

       Introduced by Black Francis

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      This digital edition first published in 2013 by Canongate Books

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      This digital edition first published in 2014 by Canongate Books

      First published in Great Britain in 1999 by

      Canongate Books Ltd,

      14 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1TE

      Copyright © Richard Brautigan, 1964

      Copyright renewed 1992 by Ianthe Brautigan Swensen

      Introduction © Charles Thompson, known as Black Francis, 2014

      The moral right of the author has been asserted

       British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library

      ISBN 978 1 78211 379 9

      eISBN: 978 1 78211 382 9

       to my daughter Ianthe

       Contents

       Introduction

       Prologue

       PART ONE: A Confederate General from Big Sur

       A Confederate General from Big Sur

       The Tide Teeth of Lee Mellon

       The First Time I Met Lee Mellon

       Augustus Mellon, CSA

       Headquarters

       A Daring Cavalry Attack on PG&E

       PART TWO: Campaigning with Lee Mellon at Big Sur

       The Letters of Arrival and Reply

       Breaking Bread at Big Sur

       Preparing for Ecclesiastes

       The Rivets in Ecclesiastes

       Begging for Their Lives

       The Truck

       In the Midst of Life

       The Extremity of $6.72

       To Gettysburg! To Gettysburg!

       Great Day

       Motorcycle

       A Farewell to Frogs

       The Rites of Tobacco

       Wilderness Again

       The Pork Chop Alligator

       The Wilderness Alligator Haiku

       He Usually Stays Over by the Garden

       That Chopping Sound

       A Short History of America After the War Between the States

       Lee Mellon’s San Jose Sartorious

       The Camp-fires of Big Sur

       The Discovery of Laurel

       Lee Mellon, Roll Away! You Rolling River

       Alligators Minus Pork Chops

       Four Couples: An American Sequence

       Awaken to the Drums!

       Bye Now, Roy Earle, Take Care of Yourself

       Crowned with Laurel and Our Banners Before Us We Descend!

       To a Pomegranate Ending,


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