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The Hawkline Monster : a Gothic Western

Richard Brautigan spent his most productive years as a writer in San Francisco, although he was born in Tacoma Washington. He once admitted that all he could do at all well was hunt and write. His writing always reflected his life in the American West and its frontier character. With The Hawkline Monster : a Gothic Western he takes the western genre, scrambles it with horror, then adds his trademark dark humor and imagination, resulting in one the best 20th century novels most people have never heard of. The last 5 or so pages elevates this from just an amusing story to a great novel.


For a more expansive description and critique of Brautigan’s work, see The Poetry Foundation’s biography: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/richard-brautigan

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Posted on Sep. 1, 2018 by Steven Dunlap