Dreaming of Babylon A Private Eye Novel 1942

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.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Brautigan, Brautigan Richard
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.08.2017
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9781786890443
• ISBN: 978-1-78689-044-3
• Pages: 192
• Dimensions (packing): 13 x 19.7 x 1.2 cm
• Series: The Canons > 69; The canons
• Subjects: Satire, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Humour, Classic fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Richard Brautigan, American Authors, detective mystery, beat movement, adventure comedy, Trout Fishing in America, An Unfortunate Woman, imagination and hope, Sombrero Fallout, unconventional narratives, A Confederate General From Big Sur, The Hawkline Monster, So the Wind Won't Blow it all Away, famous poetic imagination, autobiographical quirky style, easy-to-read prose, Dreaming of Babylon, sixties authors, Revenge of the Lawn, counter-cultural movement, You Can't Catch Death, parody of hard-boiled crime novel