Few contemporary American writers have been subjected to as much laudatory abuse as Richard Brautigan who, having become famous in the 1960s, was made a cult figure for the hippy generation and was systematically refused recognition as a major novelist once the sentimental wave of the 'greening of America' had passed. Marc Ch netier's study, originally published in 1983, was the first book to attempt to assess Brautigan's writing art which,...