Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942

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Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942
Author Richard Brautigan
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Delacorte Press/ Seymour Lawrence
Publication date 1977
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 220
ISBN ISBN 0-440-02146-4 (hardback edition)
Preceded by Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel
Followed by So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942 is Richard Brautigan's eighth novel and was published in 1977. It is a black comedy set in San Francisco in 1942. The central character, C. Card, is no Sam Spade, but actually does do detective work of a sort, when he's not off dreaming of Babylon.


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Works by Richard Brautigan
Novels
Poetry

The Return of the Rivers (1958) · The Galilee Hitch-Hiker (1958) · Lay The Marble Tea (1959) · The Octopus Frontier (1960) · All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (1963) · Please Plant This Book (1968) · The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster (1968) · Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt (1970) · Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork (1971) · June 30th June 30th (1978) · The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings (1999)
Essays

At Sea Wild Dogs (1965) . The Overland Journey of Joseph Francl and the Eternal Sleep of His Wife Antonia (1968) . The Old Lady (1971) . The Silence of Flooded Houses (1975) · Owl's: The CoEvolution Quarterly (1976) · Space Colonies (1977)
Short story collections