Trout Fishing in America

by Richard Brautigan · 1967

Trout Fishing in America is an international bestseller and cult classic that "has very little to do with trout fishing and a lot to do with the lamenting of a passing pastoral America" (Financial Times). The wildly inventive work wanders from San Francisco through rural waterways, mixing comic, playful, and melancholy tones. Brautigan’s prose is described as an "indescribable romp" summed up in one word: mayonnaise, and the title serves as a pseudonym for the miraculous, guiding readers through America’s land and mind.