How Novels Begin: TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA, by Richard Brautigan

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This droll, absurdist novel seemed to capture something important about the era in which it was written. The first chapter is actually "THE COVER FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA," which concerns the iconic photo of Brautigan (1935-1984) with a woman friend in the Washington Square park in San Francisco. But this second chapter has always felt like a beginning.