{"product_id":"an-unfortunate-woman-a-journey-paperback","title":"An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Brautigan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Brautigan's last novel, published in the U.S. for the first time \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRichard Brautigan was an original--brilliant and wickedly funny, his books resonated with the sixties, making him an overnight counterculture hero. Taken in its entirety, his body of work reveals an artistry that outreaches the literary fads that so quickly swept him up. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDark, funny, and exquisitely haunting, his final book-length fiction explores the fragile, mysterious shadowland surrounding death. Told with classic Brautigan wit, poetic style, and mordant irony, \u003ci\u003eAn Unfortunate Woman\u003c\/i\u003e assumes the form of a peripatetic journal chronicling the protagonist's travels and oblique ruminations on the suicide of one woman, and a close friend's death from cancer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter Richard Brautigan committed suicide, his only child, Ianthe Brautigan, found among his possessions the manuscript of \u003ci\u003eAn Unfortunate Woman\u003c\/i\u003e. It had been completed over a year earlier, but was still unpublished at the time of his death. Finding it was too painful to face her father's presence page after page, she put the manuscript aside. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYears later, having completed a memoir about her father's life and death, Ianthe Brautigan reread An Unfortunate Woman, and finally, clear-eyed, she saw that it was her father's work at its best and had to be published.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Brautigan\u003c\/b\u003e published 11 novels, a book of short stories, and 8 books of poetry during his short life. He is best known for \u003ci\u003eTroutfishing In America\u003c\/i\u003e, which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 132\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 10, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51762472255776,"sku":"9780312277109","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a77a0461714403e82b690a267bf792a4_1aa90b9c-7540-4584-b180-fa8d9f803846.webp?v=1780221856","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/an-unfortunate-woman-a-journey-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}