Revenge of the Lawn

Revenge of the Lawn
1st edition
Author(s)	Richard Brautigan
Cover artist	Edmund Shea
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Short stories
Publisher	Simon and Schuster
Publication date	October 1, 1971
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	174
ISBN	0-671-20960-4
OCLC Number	199967
Dewey Decimal	813/.5/4
LC Classification	PZ4.B826 Re PS3503.R2736
Preceded by	In Watermelon Sugar (1968)
Followed by	The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 (1971)

Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970 is a collection of sixty-two short stories written by the American author Richard Brautigan from 1962 to 1970. Like most of Brautigan's works, the stories are whimsical, simply themed, and often surreal. Many of the stories were originally published elsewhere.^[1] The book also contains two missing chapters from his work Trout Fishing in America, "Rembrandt Creek" and "Carthage Sink".^[2]

Footnotes

^ The full list encompasses Change, Coyote's Journal, Esquire, Evergreen Review, Jeopardy, Kulchur, Mademoiselle, New American Review, Nice, Now Now, Parallel, Playboy, Ramparts, R. C. Lion, Rolling Stone, Sum, Tri-Quarterly, and Vogue (source: The Revenge of the Lawn 1971, copyright page).
^ The Revenge of the Lawn 1971, The Lost Chapters of Trout Fishing in America: "Rembrandt Creek" and "Carthage Sink", pp 37–41

External links

Works by Richard Brautigan

Novels	A Confederate General from Big Sur (1964) • Trout Fishing in America (1967) • In Watermelon Sugar (1968) • The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 (1971) • The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western (1974) • Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery (1975) • Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel (1976) • Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942 (1977) • The Tokyo-Montana Express (1980) • So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away (1982) • An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey (1994)

Poetry collections	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 (1967) · 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)

Short story collections	Revenge of the Lawn (1971)

Recordings	Listening to Richard Brautigan (1970)