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The Tackle Box: Trout Fishing in AmericaTrout Fishing in Americaby Richard BrautiganVintageMay 1997, 128 pages, $30.00[22 February 2008]by Chris JusticeRichard Brautigan’s minimalist prose wove hallucinations into social commentary, pastoral meditations into cultural satire, and journalistic reports about mundane existence into nihilistic, punkish sirens.
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