The Tokyo-Montana Express [Hardcover]

Richard Brautigan (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 258 pages
• Publisher: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence; 1st edition (1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0440087708
• ISBN-13: 978-0440087700
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #374,962 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Brautigan, undoubtedly one of his wisest works, July 18, 1998

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Gregory Miller - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Tokyo-Montana Express (Hardcover)

Short stories loosely grouped to form a novel about the time Brautigan spent traveling back and forth between, as the title implies, Tokyo and Montana, this stands as one of the author's best, and undeservedly underrated works. Chapters such as "Old Man Working in the Rain" and "Very Good Dead Friends" will leave Brautigan fans, as well as those just getting to know his work, breathless with emotion. A work that in some places containts evidence of Brautigan's growing depression and dissatisfaction with life as age sets in, it is also one of his most personal, mature, and reflective creations. It is well worth searching for, but unfortunately hard to find.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars you'll know when you've found one of these stations, December 8, 1997

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This review is from: The Tokyo-Montana Express (Hardcover)

if you picked up this book because you've read brautigan before, skip this review, you don't need it. However, if you have no clue as to who could this guy envisioning an express between Tokyo and Montana, and you also think its a futile, impossible task, you're in for quite a treat. This book unfolds like an artichoke's flower, bursting out in strange but remarkably possible colors. Brautigan was someone who felt he had to write, you can tell by how he treats his words, with the utmost care and flippant caresses: How to explain an earthquake to a retarded child? try telling him wind is blowing through the ground, page whatever. Need i say more? Probably, but the pleasure is in discovery, not recognition.

5.0 out of 5 stars Photos From The Inside of a Brain, September 20, 2010

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Nathan J. Martin - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Tokyo-Montana Express. (Hardcover)

this novel/collection of flash fiction is so fresh, timely and unpredictable as it was when it was first printed. Every page rereadable. A must try. A must have.