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In Watermelon Sugar
  • Published: 20 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529982749
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $19.99

In Watermelon Sugar

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20 Oct 2026
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2 Nov 2015
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Relish a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Richard Brautigan, the whimsical poet of the counterculture, in his surreal and enchanting novel, In Watermelon Sugar.

A psychedelic post-apocalyptic vision of a world on the brink of civil war...

In iDEATH, the sun shines a different colour every day. It is a happy place, made of watermelon, and its inhabitants travel the length of their dreams. But outside its sugared limits a gang of dissenters live among the trash heaps of the Forgotten Works, stewing in violence, hate – and the promise of revenge.

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
  • Published: 20 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529982749
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

The Estate of Richard Brautigan

Richard Brautigan was born in Washington in 1935. During the 1950s he moved to California and became involved in the Beat Movement while developing his writing career. His novels include Trout Fishing in America, A Confederate General from Big Sur, The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966. He has also written Revenge of the Law, a collection of short stories, and The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, a book of poems. He died in 1984.
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Praise for In Watermelon Sugar

Delicate, fantastic and very funny... A highly individual style, a fertile, active inventiveness... It's cool, joyous, lucid and pleasant to read

Malcolm Bradbury

Richard Brautigan is joining Hesse, Golding, Salinger and Vonnegut as a literary magus to the literate young

Look

A charming and original work... The parable itself is extremely relevant

The Times