The Hawkline Monster, Richard Brautigan
The Hawkline Monster, Richard Brautigan
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The Hawkline Monster
A Gothic Western

Author: Richard Brautigan

Narrator: Johnathan McClain

Unabridged: 3 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/31/2016

Synopsis

The time is 1902, the setting eastern Oregon. Magic Child, a fifteen-year-old Native American girl, wanders into the wrong whorehouse looking for the right men.She finds Cameron and Greer, two gunmen taking a timeout from the game after an aborted job in Hawaii.Their violent past doesn’t concern Magic Child. She wants them to kill a monster for her, one she says lives in the ice caves under the basement of Miss Hawkline’s yellow house, and one she says has killed before.But the more she tells them about the monster, the more her story unravels until it isn’t clear if the monster is even real, or if anything else is.Richard Brautigan’s classic surrealist novel has inspired readers for decades with its wild, witty, and bizarre encounters with western-themed psychedelia.

About Richard Brautigan

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) was a literary idol of the 1960s and 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vision of American life caught the imagination of young people everywhere. He was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington, and moved to San Francisco in the mid-1950s when he became involved in the emerging beat scene. During the 1960s, he became one of the most prominent and prolific writers of the counterculture. Out of this period came some of his most famous works, the best known of which are Trout Fishing in America; his collection of poetry, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster; and his collection of stories, Revenge of the Lawn. Translated the world over, his works helped establish him as one of the most significant American writers of his generation. As his popularity waned towards the end of the 1970s, he became increasingly disillusioned about his work and his life. He committed suicide in 1984. He was the author of eleven novels, ten volumes of poetry, a collection of short stories, and miscellaneous nonfiction pieces, works that often employed parody, satire, and black comedy.

About Johnathan McClain

Johnathan McClain is an American actor, voice-over talent, and Earphones Award–winning narrator. He pursued stage acting in New York for a number of years and has appeared in many television series, including Law & Order: SVU, Medium, Scoundrels, and CSI: Miami. He also has several narration credits, including Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series and Jeremy Logan novels by Lincoln Child.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dan on October 18, 2012

This book was terrific. It is composed of three novels as the title above plainly states. I started reading the Hawkline Monster first because of the raving of a friend. I must say I was quite happy I did so. The tale was strange, supernatural and funny. It had all the hallmarks of a Brautigan novel......more

Goodreads review by James on April 15, 2012

After years of reading just Sombrero Fallout and some shorter stories I found in anthologies (from Rebel Inc, I believe), my in-laws gave me this as a birthday present. A Confederate General is an interesting debut, it is full out potential and (to paraphrase the blurb) a 'preview of things to come'.......more

Goodreads review by Dave on July 02, 2023

This book contains three Brautigan novels from the 60's and 70's. First up is A Confederate General from Big Sur which is about the speaker Jesse and his adventures with Lee Mellon. The two literally end up living in a make shift "home" with some women and some loud bullfrogs and all of this makes f......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on May 02, 2011

I love Big Sur. I could read it over and over again. It's probably my favorite prose piece by Brautigan and I have a real and strong affection for it, come to think of it, I think I have affection for this piece than several of my family members.......more

Goodreads review by Benjamin on December 08, 2022

Confederate general is four star rating. Middle one is not as good. Hawklike is in betweenies. None as good as watermelon.......more

Quotes

“Far out and weird. I like his word choices, they feel really vivid or somewhat photographic and cool.” Gia Coppola, “My 10 Favorite Books,” New York Times

“Smug, clever, silly, short and sweet…that spareness of image, succinctness of dialogue, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary fiction, here or anywhere.” Kirkus Reviews

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