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A Confederate General from Big Sur
- Author
- Richard Brautigan
- Narrator
- Jim Meskimen
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 28 March 2017
- Run Time
- 3 hours 45 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
California, 1957. Lee Mellon believes he is the descendant of the only Confederate general to have come from Big Sur and is himself a seeker of truth in his own modern-day war against the status quo.
For the first time in audio, A Confederate General from Big Sur was the late Richard Brautigan’s first published novel, written when he was twenty-eight.
Critics Review
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“An absorbing, irritating, and terribly amusing book that brings to American humor a new and disturbing voice.”
San Francisco Chronicle
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“Brautigan…makes all the senses breathe. Only a hedonist could cram so much life onto a single page.”
Newsweek, praise for the author
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Details
- Author
- Richard Brautigan
- Narrator
- Jim Meskimen
- Duration
- 3 hours 45 minutes
- Release Date
- 28 March 2017
- ISBN
- 9781504759687
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Classic fiction, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
California, 1957. Lee Mellon believes he is the descendant of the only Confederate general to have come from Big Sur and is himself a seeker of truth in his own modern-day war against the status quo. For the first time in audio, A Confederate General from Big Sur was the late Richard Brautigan’s first published novel, written when he was twenty-eight.
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