Product Description

Death is a place where the sun shines a different colour every day and where people travel to the length of their dreams. Rejecting the violence and hate of the old gang at the Forgotten Works, they lead gentle lives in watermelon sugar. Brautigan expresses the mood of a new generation.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #49402 in Books
• Published on: 2002-07-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 142 pages

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

Customer Reviews

One of the most beautiful books written
Richard brautigan has an amazing way with words. He has an ability to say exactly what you are feeling, yet are incapable of expressing, in the simplest way. He made me remember the beauty in a string of letters. "Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love". I have read most of his books and this is my favourite by far. It was one of the first I read and it got me hooked.
This book is very surreal but at the same time it is possible to relate to it. To understand what he was trying to tell us about his fictional community, iDEATH. That it represents the death of the individual in society.
It is a very simple, beautiful book that I can read over and over and see in a different way every time.

Special, very special, book
Richard Brautigan's way with words is so simple and yet so touching- he knows exactly where to hit every time. 'In watermelon Sugar' converges planes of surrealism and childlike beauty, with the simple and the true, and does it extremely successfully. I first found his books in a Kafka bookshop in Prague and remember being so pleased with them after reading them that I felt smug and content for days! A trite thing to say no doubt but Brautigan has that effect on you.

One of Brautigan's best
A truly beatiful book that has to be in my Top 10 of all time.
A story about an idyllic community that is blighted by some tragic events, yet still manges to retain a sense of happiness and harmony.
I remember my father being surprised that I saw so much beauty in this book, because the things that he took from it were the upset, suffering, and death. And to an extent I can see his point of view, but for me the positive outways the negative. Maybe he's just a bit more cynical than me.
I for one love it and always will.