Canons

Revenge of the Lawn is Richard Brautigan in miniature and contains no fewer than 62 ultra-short stories set mainly in Tacoma, Washington (where the author grew up) and in the flower-powered San Francisco of the late fifties and early sixties.

In their compacted form, which ranges from the murderously short ''The Scarlatti Tilt'' to one-page wonders like the sexually poignant poetry of ''An Unlimited Supply of 35 Millimetre Film'', Brautigan''s stories take us into a world where his fleeting glimpses of everyday strangeness leave stories and characters resonating in our heads long after they''re gone.