Accession number:
PML 184277
Published:
New York : Simon and Schuster, c1974.
Description:
216 p. ; 21 cm
Credit:
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes:
First edition.
Binding:
Brown cloth with gold decoration ; pictorial dust jacket designed by Wendell Minor, with author photo by John Fryer on rear panel.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Author's inscription in ink on title page: This copy is for Don Allen with Love from Richard Brautigan. San Francisco November 23, 1974.
Provenance:
Carter Burden.
Summary:
The year is 1902; the setting, Eastern Oregon. A 15-year-old Indian girl wanders into a whorehouse looking for men to kill the monster that lives in the ice caves under the basement of Miss Hawkline's house. Armed with a trunkful of guns, two men set off in search of the Hawkline Monster. What follows is a series of unusual and often comic encounters in this parody of two literary genres.
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