The Edna Webster Collection Of Undiscovered Writing, The by Richard Brautigan

The Edna Webster Collection Of Undiscovered Writing, The by Richard Brautigan

On the eve of his departure from Eugene, Oregon, to San Francisco and worldly success, a twenty-one-year-old unpublished writer named Richard Brautigan gave these funny, buoyant stories and poems as a gift to Edna Webster, the beloved mother of both his best friend and his first "real" girlfriend. "When I am rich and famous, Edna," he told her, "this will be your social security.' The stories and poems show Brautigan as hopelessly lovestruck, cheerily goofy, and at his most disarmingly innocent. We see not only a young man and young artist about to bloom, but also the whole literary sensibility of the 1960s counterculture about to spread its wings and fly.

Richard Brautigan (1935-1984), a counterculture deity and author of 10 novels, nine volumes of poetry, and a collection of short tales, was a god of the counterculture.