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The Abortion: An Historial Romance 1966
The Abortion An Historial Romance 1966
Author: Richard Brautigan
A reclusive young man works in a San Francisco library for unpublishable books. Life's losers, an astonishing number of whom seem to be writers, can bring their manuscripts to the library, where they will be welcomed, registered and shelved. They will not be read, but they will be cherished. In comes Vida, with her manuscript. Her book is about ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780671809881
ISBN-10: 0671809881
Publication Date: 8/3/1976
Pages: 192
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Publisher: Pocket
Book Type: Paperback
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Intensely personal. Utterly sentimental. Very few would suppose Brautigan's "Historical Romance" The Abortion was a work of speculative (let alone science) fiction. Recently however, in a short narrative Dave McKean put forth an interesting proposition. He states that the lost library so lovingly described throughout the book is the perfect metaphor for the world wide web...

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