Revenge of the Lawn by Richard Brautigan ISBN 13: 9780671804213

First published in 1971, Revenge of the Lawn is Richard Brautigan in miniature. It contains no fewer than 62 ultra-short stories set mainly in Tacoma, Washington (where the author grew up) and in the flower-powered San Francisco of the late fifties and early sixties. In their compacted form, which ranges from the murderously short 'The Scarlatti Tilt' to one-page wonders like the sexually poignant poetry of 'An Unlimited Supply of 35 Millimeter Film', Brautigan's stories take us into a world where his fleeting glimpses of everyday strangeness leave scenes and characters resonating in our heads. Revenge of the Lawn is Brautigan's only collection of short fiction and remains one of the finest volumes of stories to have come out of modern America.