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The Abortion - An Historical Romance 1966

  • Richard Brautigan

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The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 is a novel by Richard Brautigan first published in 1971 by Simon & Schuster. In subsequent printings the title is often shortened to simply The Abortion.

he Abortion is a genre novel parody concerning the librarian of a very unusual California library which accepts books in any form and from anyone who wishes to drop one off at the library—children submit tales told in crayon about their toys; teenagers tell tales of angst and old people drop by with their memoirs—described as "the unwanted, the lyrical and haunted volumes of American writing" in the novel.Summoned by a silver bell at all hours, submissions are catalogued at the librarian's discretion; not by the Dewey Decimal system, but by placement on whichever magically dust-free shelf would, in the author's judgment, serve best as the book's home.

Genres

  • American fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • San francisco (calif.), fiction
  • Librarians, fiction
  • Librarians
  • Fiction
  • Libraries
  • Abortion
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About the author

  • Richard Brautigan

    1933 - 1984

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    39 ratings · 64 works

Editions

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    Pocket Books, Pocket

    1972

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    Simon and Schuster

    1971

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    New Ed edition

    Vintage

    July 4, 2002

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    Vintage

    July 4, 2002

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Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

January 25, 1973

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    Pocket

    August 3, 1976

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    Pocket

    March 1, 1972

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    Hayakawa Shobō

    2002

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