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When you hire C.Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private eye barrel. And when Card is hired to steal a body from the morgue, he needs to stop dreaming, find bullets for his gun and get there before someone else does.

Not since Trout Fishing in America has Brautigan so successfully combined his wild sense of humour with his famous poetic imagination. In this parody of the hard-boiled crime novel, the adventures of seedy, not-too-bright C.Card are a delight to both the mind and the heart.



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An absolute original * * Guardian * *
A born writer * * Sunday Times * *
Richard Brautigan . . . has invented a genre * * San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle * *
Undoubtedly funny * * The Times * *
He writes with a kind of free-wheeling, zany magic * * Guardian * *

Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942

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      Publisher: Canongate Books
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 03/08/2017
      ISBN13: 9781786890443, 978-1786890443
      ISBN10: 1786890445

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      When you hire C.Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private eye barrel. And when Card is hired to steal a body from the morgue, he needs to stop dreaming, find bullets for his gun and get there before someone else does.

      Not since Trout Fishing in America has Brautigan so successfully combined his wild sense of humour with his famous poetic imagination. In this parody of the hard-boiled crime novel, the adventures of seedy, not-too-bright C.Card are a delight to both the mind and the heart.



      Trade Review
      An absolute original * * Guardian * *
      A born writer * * Sunday Times * *
      Richard Brautigan . . . has invented a genre * * San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle * *
      Undoubtedly funny * * The Times * *
      He writes with a kind of free-wheeling, zany magic * * Guardian * *

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