SOMBRERO FALLOUT by Richard Brautigan, Jarvis Cocker ( 9780857862648 )

Item Details

Title:

SOMBRERO FALLOUT
A JAPANESE NOVEL

By:

Richard Brautigan, Jarvis Cocker

Format:

Paperback

List price:

£9.99

Our price:

£7.29

Discount:

27% off

You save:

£2.70

ISBN 10:

0857862642

ISBN 13:

9780857862648

Availability:

Usually dispatched within 1-2 days.

Delivery rates

Stock:

Currently 7 available

Publisher:

CANONGATE BOOKS LTD

Pub. date:

1 August, 2012

Pages:

224

Description:

Reissued to mark the 30th Anniversary of Brautigan's death. Introduced by Jarvis Cocker

Synopsis:

A heartbroken American writer starts a story about an ice-cold sombrero that falls inexplicably from the sky and lands in the centre of a small Southwest town. Devastated by the departure of his gorgeous Japanese girlfriend, he cannot concentrate on his writing and in frustration he throws away his beginning. But as the man searches through his apartment for strands of his lost love's hair, the discarded story in the wastepaper basket - through some kind of elaborate origami - carries on without him. Arguments over the sombrero begin, one thing leads to another and before long all hell breaks loose in the normally sleepy town. Brautigan's fertile imagination twists and pulls at the ensuing chaos to come up with a tender, moving, surreal and incredibly funny tale that is told by a writer at the very peak of his creative powers.

Publication:

Imprint:

Canongate Books Ltd

Returns:

Returnable

Some other items by this author:

A CONFEDERATE GENERAL FROM BIG SUR

A CONFEDERATE GENERAL FROM BIG SUR (PB)

A CONFEDERATE GENERAL FROM BIG SUR / DREAMING OF BABYLON / THE HAWKLINE MONSTER (PB)

A SUPERHERO FOR HIRE (HB)

AN UNFORTUNATE WOMAN

AN UNFORTUNATE WOMAN (PB)