{"product_id":"2940169524154","title":"Trout Fishing in America: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn its first time in audio and with an introduction written and read by poet Billy Collins, \u003ci\u003eTrout Fishing in America\u003c\/i\u003e is an indescribable romp, by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco through America¿s culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Brautigan¿s world is one of gentle magic and marvelous laughter, of the incredibly beautiful and the beautifully incredible. \u003ci\u003eTrout Fishing in America\u003c\/i\u003e is a pseudonym for the miraculous. A journey which begins at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco¿s Washington Square, which wanders through the wonders of America¿s rural waterways, and which ends, inevitably, with mayonnaise. Funny, wild, and sweet,\u003ci\u003e Trout Fishing in America\u003c\/i\u003e is an incomparable guidebook to the delights of exploration¿both of land and mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vision of American life caught the imagination of young people everywhere. His early books became required reading for the hip generation, and on its publication, \u003ci\u003eTrout Fishing in America\u003c\/i\u003e, considered by many as his best novel, became an international bestseller.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith it Brautigan caught the public¿s attention and became a cult hero. By 1970 \u003ci\u003eTrout Fishing in America \u003c\/i\u003ehad become the namesake of a commune, a free school, an underground newspaper, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Blackstone Audio production.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104537297136,"sku":"2940169524154","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169524154_p0.jpg?v=1769896100","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169524154","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}