- Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942
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Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942
First edition coverAuthor(s) Richard Brautigan Cover artist Craig Nelson Country United States Language English Genre(s) Novel Publisher Delacorte Press/ Seymour Lawrence Publication date 1977 Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Pages 220 ISBN ISBN 0-440-02146-4 (hardback edition) OCLC Number 2964445 Dewey Decimal 813/.5/4 LC Classification PZ4.B826 Dr PS3503.R2736 Preceded by Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel Followed by So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942 is Richard Brautigan's eighth novel and was published in 1977. It is a black comedy set in San Francisco in 1942. The central character, C. Card, is no Sam Spade, but actually does do detective work of a sort, when he's not off dreaming of Babylon.
External links
- Richard Brautigan Bibliography and Archive
- Entry on brautigan.net
- Von Babylon träumen ... Eine Kriminalgeschichte im San Francisco von 1942
Works by Richard Brautigan Novels A Confederate General from Big Sur (1964) • Trout Fishing in America (1967) • In Watermelon Sugar (1968) • The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 (1971) • The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western (1974) • Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery (1975) • Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel (1976) • Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942 (1977) • The Tokyo-Montana Express (1980) • So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away (1982) • An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey (1994)
Poetry collections The Return of the Rivers (1958) · The Galilee Hitch-Hiker (1958) · Lay The Marble Tea (1959) · The Octopus Frontier (1960) · All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (1967) · Please Plant This Book (1968) · The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster (1968) · Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt (1970) · Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork (1971) · June 30th June 30th (1978) · The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings (1999)
Short story collections Revenge of the Lawn (1971)
Recordings Listening to Richard Brautigan (1970)
Categories:- 1977 books
- Novels by Richard Brautigan
- 1942 in fiction
- 1970s novel stubs
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