Books : The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings
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by: Richard Brautigan
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780395974698
ISBN: 0395974690
Label: Mariner Books
Manufacturer: Mariner Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: August 23, 1999
Publisher: Mariner Books
Sales Rank: 444143
Studio: Mariner Books
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Product Description:
On the eve of his departure from Eugene, Oregon, to San Francisco and worldly success, a twenty-one-year-old unpublished writer named Richard Brautigan gave these funny, buoyant stories and poems as a gift to Edna Webster, the beloved mother of both his best friend and his first 'real' girlfriend. 'When I am rich and famous, Edna,' he told her, 'this will be your social security.' The stories and poems show Brautigan as hopelessly lovestruck, cheerily goofy, and at his most disarmingly innocent. We see not only a young man and young artist about to bloom, but also the whole literary sensibility of the 1960s counterculture about to spread its wings and fly.
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Rating:  - my favorite collection of poems ive ever read
a couple of these poems almost had me in tears and a couple of these had me yelling yes yes. brautigan makes you orgasm in this book.
Rating: - short and sweet
obviously his earliest writings aren't going to be his best, but his character shines through in this collection. the poem about grace, "did you ever want to be a rose?" made me cry. it's a little collection in which brautigan looks for a way to express his feelings, and it made me love him that much more.
Rating: - A must-read for any Brautigan fan
This book offers amazing insight into the life and perspective of an amazing author. Many of his unpublished works in this book rival his published, 'refined' work. This book is essential reading if you value and appreciate the work of Brautigan.
Rating:  - A Good Insight Into the Man's Writing, Not All Good Writing
When Brautigan was 21, before he moved to San Francisco to find fame, he gave a stack of poems and stories to Edna Webster, the mother of his girlfriend. This is it. They're not Brautigan's best. They were just his first. Many of them are actually quite bad. That said, there are a few gems in here. You're more likely to find a brilliant line here or there than an entirely brilliant poem. But as a Brautigan fan, it's interesting to see him finding his voice even at such a young age. If you're looking ... Read More
Rating:  - well I liked the layout, and laughed out loud too
With all due respect to other reviewers' gripes about having poems start and stop willy nilly regardless of page placement, I like these that way. The layout is not a distraction; it just fits the feel of having to work marginally harder at discovering treasure, even while sifting through some kid stuff that RB himself mightn't have cared to frame. It goes along with the unpolished beauty of this book. Anyway, it's a rare poet who can make you laugh out loud.
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