Confederate General from Big Sur (Hardcover)

from jon1lambert

A wonderful author I discovered too late. I should be rereading his books now and not for the first time. Tanked up on muscatel, the narrator and Lee Mellon check out the library for details of Mellon's Confederate general granddad. He wasn't a Confederate general - `the librarian was debating wh...

from unclebob53703

His first novel, more conventional than some that came after, an absolute delight.

from mschuyler

I must say I was a little askance at the generally lukewarm to negative reviews on Brautigan. I wonder that if to appreciate him, you had to have been there. The sixties and seventies were a time of turmoil in America. Riots in inner cities and on college campuses were common. It looked like the ...

from jon1lambert

A wonderful author I discovered too late. I should be rereading his books now and not for the first time. Tanked up on muscatel, the narrator and Lee Mellon check out the library for details of Mellon's Confederate general granddad. He wasn't a Confederate general - `the librarian was debating wh...

from dypaloh

Your opinion of A Confederate General from Big Sur could depend on how delighted you feel about its frequently odd descriptive phrasings. An example from near the end, when I finally admitted to myself that I had tired of this sort of thing: "the waves were breaking like ice cube trays out of a m...