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| Title | : | The Abortion |
| Author | : | Richard Brautigan |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 226 pages |
| Published | : | January 1973 by Vintage/Ebury (Random House Group) (first published 1971) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Novels. Romance. Literature. Writing. Books About Books |
Richard Brautigan
Hardcover | Pages: 226 pages Rating: 4.01 | 5201 Users | 361 Reviews
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A reclusive young man works in a San Francisco library for unpublishable books. Life's losers, an astonishing number of whom seem to be writers, can bring their manuscripts to the library, where they will be welcomed, registered and shelved. They will not be read, but they will be cherished. In comes Vida, with her manuscript. Her book is about her gorgeous body, in which she feels uncomfortable. The librarian makes her feel comfortable, and together they live in the back of the library until the trip to Tijuana changes them in ways neither of them had ever expected.
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| Original Title: | The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 |
| ISBN: | 0224007793 (ISBN13: 9780224007795) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Vida |
| Setting: | United States of America |
Rating Based On Books The Abortion
Ratings: 4.01 From 5201 Users | 361 ReviewsColumn Based On Books The Abortion
Book is rubbish! I wanted to read it because I'd heard about the concept of the library of unpublished manuscripts. Thought that was a pretty interesting idea and I enjoyed reading about the elderly woman who came into this library to submit the book she had written about growing flowers in a hotel room by candlelight.The first few chapters talk about the idea of the library, and that's quite nice. Then you have to sift through page after page of very poor writing about how beautiful this man'sgreat prose. leaves smile fine writer
Another fantastic book by my fave writer. Whenever I'm reading him I start to notice an incredible amount of sychronicity between the things he's describing and the little things that are happening around me. For example, while reading this book my bus pulls into the Fresno greyhound depot right as the hero flies over Fresno and looks down from his plane window. May seem boring in type but it gets increasingly strange as they add up. *spoiler (doesn't matter)His style is so strange I think that
As is almost always the case with Brautigan, this novel is a consistently hilarious and absurd ride through both reality and surreality. Its complete with the deadpan delivery and minimalistic/simplistic writing style that make Brautigan Brautigan. However, I felt that this novel was also a bit more upbeat than many of the other works of his I have read. For the most part, hes a bittersweet or even straight up sad writer; for all his quirkiness and comedy, his works normally feature some
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my kind of humor
I am working my way through all of Brautigan's works. The Abortion is the worst of his novels I have read so far, though it has the best opening. The excellent conceit of the library that only accepts unpublished books and is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, has an enormous capacity for fictional possibilities, but unfortunately this novel doesn't do justice to any of them. The story, such as it exists, is really about escaping from this wonderful library almost as soon as the idea of it
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