Told in classic Brautigan style, An Unfortunate Woman is a dark, funny, and haunting exploration of the author\'s final months--thinly disguised as the protagonist\'s ruminations on death--which resonates powerfully in the real-life context of the author\'s own suicide.
Years later, having completed a memoir about her father\'s life and death, Ianthe Brautigan reread An Unfortunate Woman, and finally, clear-eyed, she saw that it was her father\'s work at its best and had to be published..
Finding it was too painful to face her father\'s presence page after page, she put the manuscript aside.
It had been completed over a year earlier, but was still unpublished at the time of his death.
After Richard Brautigan committed suicide, his only child, Ianthe Brautigan, found among his possessions the manuscript of An Unfortunate Woman .
Told with classic Brautigan wit, poetic style, and mordant irony, An Unfortunate Woman assumes the form of a peripatetic journal chronicling the protagonist\'s travels and oblique ruminations on the suicide of one woman, and a close friend\'s death from cancer.
Dark, funny, and exquisitely haunting, his final book-length fiction explores the fragile, mysterious shadowland surrounding death.
Taken in its entirety, his body of work reveals an artistry that outreaches the literary fads that so quickly swept him up. for the first time Richard Brautigan was an original--brilliant and wickedly funny, his books resonated with the sixties, making him an overnight counterculture hero.
Richard Brautigan\'s last novel, published in the U.
S.
Told in classic Brautigan style, An Unfortunate Woman is a dark, funny, and haunting exploration of the author\'s final months--thinly disguised as the protagonist\'s ruminations on death--which resonates powerfully in the real-life context of the author\'s own suicide
