About the Book Required reading for the hip generation, this one-volume edition contains two novels and a collection of poetry. The comic genius and iconoclastic vision of American life will recapture todays reader. Book Synopsis Three counterculture classics by Richard Brautigan, literary icon of the 1960s, together in a single volume, including the unforgettable Trout Fishing in America. Trout Fishing in America is by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco through Americas rural waterways. In Watermelon Sugar expresses the mood of a new generation, revealing death as a place where people travel the length of their dreams, rejecting violence and hate. The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster is a collection of nearly one hundred poems, first published in 1968.