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A review by literarycrushes
In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
3.0
In Watermelon Sugar is a strange little gem of a novel written by Richard Brautigan in 1964 (published in ’68). I still don’t completely know what to make of it, but I loved its poetically simple, matter-of-fact descriptions of love, death, and betrayal. The story takes place at iDeath, a post-apocalyptical commune where everything is made of watermelon sugar and the sun shines a different color each day of the week and the stars are all red.
I.W.S. could easily be read in a single sitting- the version I read was 166 compact pages, most of which consisted only of a few sentences or a paragraph on each page. It is not a conventional novel, and it reads like a long, surrealistic poem full of beautiful imagery and symbolism for the readers to unpack. I recommend this book for fans of HOWL, Kerouac, and of course, the song Watermelon Sugar by Harry Styles.
I.W.S. could easily be read in a single sitting- the version I read was 166 compact pages, most of which consisted only of a few sentences or a paragraph on each page. It is not a conventional novel, and it reads like a long, surrealistic poem full of beautiful imagery and symbolism for the readers to unpack. I recommend this book for fans of HOWL, Kerouac, and of course, the song Watermelon Sugar by Harry Styles.