The Tokyo-Montana Express: Author: Richard Brautigan: Edition: 3: Publisher: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, Original from: the University of Michigan: Digitized: Mar 5, 2/5(3). However, The Tokyo-Montana Express was a revelation. He's retained his whimsicality, but it no longer seems strained. No longer is he trying to outdo Vonnegut, no longer is he trying to create a novel, instead what we get is a book of short prose poems. And they feel right. This seems to be Brautigan's style of choice and it works like a charm.4/5(K). Tokyo-Montana Express is a series of short stories, from a single sentence (the brilliant lesson in the anatomy of a story that is the Scarlatti Tilt) to longer episodes, with backdrops of Montana and Tokyo, giving a montage of this period of his life. Brautigan shows 4/5(32).
Find many great new used options and get the best deals for TOKYO-MONTANA EXPRESS (PICADOR BOOKS) By Richard Brautigan *Excellent Condition* at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! "Though the Tokyo-Montana Express moves at a great speed, there are many stops along the way. This book is those brief stations." So begins Richard Brautigan's scrapbook of odd ramblings beset with nearly as many problems as that of Amtrak. He spent two decades researching and writing Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan, published in to great acclaim. Attractive, fine press edition of this collection of short stories Brautigan worked on from , while dividing his time between Tokyo and his home in Montana.
Tokyo-Montana Express is a series of short stories, from a single sentence (the brilliant lesson in the anatomy of a story that is the Scarlatti Tilt) to longer episodes, with backdrops of Montana and Tokyo, giving a montage of this period of his life. Brautigan shows the ridiculous and the somber together, inseparable. Not a novel--but rather autobiographical short takes, about evenly divided in setting between Montana and Tokyo, as Brautigan himself is during the year. True, a good many of these prose poems are insufferably cloying, reductive little lemon drops in Brautigan's familiar virile-winsome style: an afternoon snowfall consisting of just two flakes; umbrellas (""I can't understand why they appear just before it starts to rain""); cats eating cantaloupe; a failed Chinese restaurant. The Tokyo-Montana Express is a collection by Richard Brautigan. It contains chapters which are short stories written by Brautigan from to , during a period when he was dividing his time between Japan and his ranch house in Montana. A note at the beginning of the book explains that the chapters are "stations" along the tracks of the Tokyo-Montana Express and the "I" is the voice of each of those stations.
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