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A review by opheliapo
Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan
5.0
This book is always in the back of my mind, telling me about 12,845 telephone booths and mayonnaise covered bananas, in Richard Brautigan’s monotonous twang of a voice (in the most charming way a monotonous twang can be). It has been one of my favourite books, even since before I read it, back when I heard a passage on the radio some three or four years ago and was totally awed; and every time I’ve read it since I am awed all over again.
The surrealist world of TFiA and it’s undertones of modernism and hazy passing traditions are only made weirder and better by the impossible structure, the simple and nostalgic flow of Brautigan’s language, and the reappearance of such memorable characters as ‘Trout Fishing in America’, ‘Trout Fishing in America’, and ‘Trout Fishing America Shorty’.
The surrealist world of TFiA and it’s undertones of modernism and hazy passing traditions are only made weirder and better by the impossible structure, the simple and nostalgic flow of Brautigan’s language, and the reappearance of such memorable characters as ‘Trout Fishing in America’, ‘Trout Fishing in America’, and ‘Trout Fishing America Shorty’.