Trout Fishing in America
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Here's a review a swiped from somewhere:
The book isn't really about anything, in the conventional sense. It's chapters are loosely unified by a repeated reference to fishing for trout in America (mostly Brautigan's native Pacific Northwest) and to a character named Trout Fishing in America, and a hotel named Trout Fishing in America, and a book titled Trout Fishing in America, and so on... Metaphors twist back on themselves; meanings multiply; even the cover photo of the book (see above) and the statue in the picture become integral to the text. It is playful, often amusing, frequently frustratingly obscure, and it's hard to see what it all adds up to.
Thankfully, Brautigan has the good sense to keep it brief and not to strain for greater meaning than his verbal tricks will support. And in a final odd twist, he tells the reader in the penultimate chapter that he's always wanted to "write a book that ended with the word Mayonnaise." However, in the final chapter, he actually ends with the word "mayonaise."
Yes, thank God it was brief!! :-)
The book isn't really about anything, in the conventional sense. It's chapters are loosely unified by a repeated reference to fishing for trout in America (mostly Brautigan's native Pacific Northwest) and to a character named Trout Fishing in America, and a hotel named Trout Fishing in America, and a book titled Trout Fishing in America, and so on... Metaphors twist back on themselves; meanings multiply; even the cover photo of the book (see above) and the statue in the picture become integral to the text. It is playful, often amusing, frequently frustratingly obscure, and it's hard to see what it all adds up to.
Thankfully, Brautigan has the good sense to keep it brief and not to strain for greater meaning than his verbal tricks will support. And in a final odd twist, he tells the reader in the penultimate chapter that he's always wanted to "write a book that ended with the word Mayonnaise." However, in the final chapter, he actually ends with the word "mayonaise."
Yes, thank God it was brief!! :-)
Journal Entry 2 by minniemack at Northville District Library in Northville, Michigan USA on Saturday, January 15, 2005
Released 19 yrs ago (1/15/2005 UTC) at Northville District Library in Northville, Michigan USA
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An interesting book to say the least. Trout fishing in America may mean a whole lot of nothing to some, and a whole lot of everything to others. As for me, I'm confused by the entries. Although I did enjoy it. The absolute lack of cohesion in the stories made each chapter an adventure and the individual stories give a decent, if not slightly drug-influenced view of California in the 60's.
I received the book while walking down the main drag of Ann Arbor. A man was selling paperbacks out of his car. He had boxes of them. It was rather late at night in the beginning days of Novemeber. My uncle, an old hippie from santa cruz, decided that I needed to read Trout Fishing. So now I have it and am going to circulate it throughout my little college socialite group.
CAUGHT IN ANN ARBOR MI UNITED STATES
I received the book while walking down the main drag of Ann Arbor. A man was selling paperbacks out of his car. He had boxes of them. It was rather late at night in the beginning days of Novemeber. My uncle, an old hippie from santa cruz, decided that I needed to read Trout Fishing. So now I have it and am going to circulate it throughout my little college socialite group.
CAUGHT IN ANN ARBOR MI UNITED STATES
