Dreaming of Babylon. Richard Brautigan

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Название Dreaming of Babylon
Автор произведения Richard Brautigan
Жанр Контркультура
Серия Canons
Издательство Контркультура
Год выпуска 0
isbn 9781786890450



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      Published in Great Britain in 2017 by Canongate Books Ltd, 14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE

       www.canongate.co.uk

      This digital edition first published in 2017 by Canongate Books

      Copyright © Richard Brautigan, 1977

      The moral right of the author has been asserted

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library

      eISBN 978 1 78689 045 0

      Typeset by Canongate Books

       This one is for Helen Brannwith love from Richard.

       I guess one of the reasonsthat I’ve never beena very good private detectiveis that I spend too much timedreaming of Babylon.

      Contents

       Good News, Bad News

       Babylon

       Oklahoma

       Cactus Fog

       My Girlfriend

       Sergeant Rink

       The Hall of Justice

       Adolf Hitler

       Mustard

       Bela Lugosi

       1934

       The Blonde

       “Eye”

       ·38

       The Morning Mail

       The Boss

       The Front Door to Babylon

       President Roosevelt

       A Babylonian Sand Watch

       Nebuchadnezzar

       The 596 B.C. Baseball Season

       First Base Hotel

       A Cowboy in Babylon

       Terry and the Pirates

       Ming the Merciless

       The Magician

       Barcelona

       The Abraham Lincoln Brigade

       Loving Uncle Sam

       Bus Throne

       Drums of Fu Manchu

       Friday’s Grave

       Smith

       Lobotomy

       The Milkmen

       My Day

       Christmas Carols

       A World Renowned Expert on Socks

       Good-bye, Oil Wells in Rhode Island

       Pretty Pictures

       Pedro and His Five Romantics

       Smith Smith

       Roast Turkey and Dressing

       Cinderella of the Airways

       Smith Smith Versus the Shadow Robots

       The Morning Paper

       Beer Tastes