Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery
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| Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery | |
| Author | Richard Brautigan |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Simon & Shuster |
| Publication date | September, 1975 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 167 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-671-22065-9 (hardback edition) |
| Preceded by | The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western |
| Followed by | Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel |
Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery was a novel by Richard Brautigan written in 1975.
The story takes place in San Francisco, California in the early 1970s. The main protagonist is a man named Bob. Bob lives with his girlfriend Constance in an apartment in San Francisco. Bob and Constance are going through some rough times in their relationship. Because of their failing relationship, Bob becomes chronically depressed. Their neighbors that live on the floor below them, John and Pat, watch a Greta Garbo movie on their TV station. They debate whether Greta Garbo and Willard would have a future together. Meanwhile the Logan brothers are looking for bowling trophies stolen three years earlier. The brothers have turned their happy life of bowling into a life of vengeance. All the people involved in the night have an intersection that is comically sad.[citation needed]
Richard Brautigan got the name Willard in the novel from his friend Stanley Fullerton's paper-maché bird named Willard and, in fact, a bird is on the front cover of the novel.
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Brautigan, Richard (1975). Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery. New York: ISBN 0-671-20872-1
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