Book List

This quarter, we'll be reading a total of eight books: a pair from each of four authors. We'll be covering them in this order, starting with Richard Brautigan, so please be sure you've purchased the books in time for our class discussions.

Richard Brautigan

• Trout Fishing in America
• A Confederate General from Big Sur

(Most of Brautigan's books are only commercially in print in a series of three-in-one volumes, but used copies of these individual books abound. Either version is fine.)

Kurt Vonnegut

• Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death
• Cat's Cradle

Robert Coover

• Pricksongs and Descants: Fictions
• The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.

Donald Barthelme

• Sixty Stories
• The Dead Father

(Please don't confuse Sixty Stories with the similarly-titled collection, Forty Stories. Also, you don't necessarily need the new reissue with the introduction by David Gates)

Books have been ordered at both the UC and DuBois Bookstores. You can also find used copies from sites including Small Press Distribution, Powell's, Alibris, ABE Books and Half.com, as well as sellers on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.