Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery

A reissue of two Richard Brautigan works in one volume! With updated translations.

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) was an American prose writer and poet, a landmark figure of the 1960s–70s counterculture—an inspiration for many writers from Erland Lou and Christopher Moore to Haruki Murakami and Sarah Hall. The book includes: his last published novel, “The Abortion of Unhappy Woman” (in form a traveler’s diary, and in content a deep inner monologue), as well as the novel “Willard and His Bowling Ball Prizes,” about a chain of absurd events and comic situations in which the characters ended up, and about their disconnection from one another. A mini-collection of Richard Brautigan’s unique prose is an important event for all admirers of the writer—who was, in this world, not at home.