Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, the Pill Versus the Springhill Min E Disaster, and in Watermelon Sugar

Three counterculture classics by Richard Brautigan, literary icon of the 1960s, together in a single volume, including the unforgettable Trout Fishing in America.Trout Fishing in America is by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco through America's rural waterways.In Watermelon Sugar expresses the mood of a new generation, revealing death as a place where people travel the length of their dreams, rejecting violence and hate.The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster is a collection of nearly one hundred poems, first published in 1968.