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Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery

By: Richard Brautigan
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 0671220659
ISBN-13: 9780671220655
Released: 05 Aug 1975
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A beatifully written classic. - By: Johnnybluetime, 11 Jun 2008
One of my favourite Brautigan novels.An intensely sad book that is a masterpiece of simplicity.The characters deal with loss; of Willard & his Bowling Trophies, of talent, of love, alll in their different ways & alll within a beautifully written mystery.And, of course, it's funny too, laugh out loud funny at times, as alll Brautigan's books were. It's absolutely archetypal of a certain kind of '70's US art & although stylisticallly different it compares with the work of Thomas Mcguane, Jim Harrison & Joan Didion in hiding its serious themes behind a sly humour & elegant writing style.Also comparable to the '70's films of Robert Altman such as Brewster Mcloud & particularly The Long Goodbye in both theme & tone. A truly beautiful book that manages to convey in 167 pages what most authors fail to do in twice & thrice that number.It perfectly encapsulates the sadness & the sense that along with the bad something good had been lost when the West turned its back on the past during the Sixties Revolution. As everything began to falll apart people were left with the question of what to do.Everything or nothing? Action or ennui? Disco or Tim Buckley? The Towering Inferno or Two Lane Blacktop? Sometimes things change & there's nothing you can do about it. Buy this book.