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Dreaming of Babylon

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Dreaming of Babylon

By Richard Brautigan

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About the book

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.

Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives
Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction
Satirical fiction and parodies

Book details

ISBN

9781786890443

Publisher

Canongate Books Ltd

Published year

2017

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Dreaming of Babylon

Format

Paperback

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