This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: In Watermelon Sugar, the Abortion: an Historical Romance 1966, Trout Fishing in America, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away, Willard and His Bowling Trophies: a Perverse Mystery, the Hawkline Monster: a Gothic Western, a Confederate General From Big Sur, the Tokyo-Montana Express, Sombrero Fallout: a Japanese Novel, Dreaming of Babylon: a Private Eye Novel 1942, an Unfortunate Woman: a Journey. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: In Watermelon Sugar is a novella written by Richard Brautigan published in 1968. It is a tale of a commune organized around a central gathering house which is named "iDEATH." In this environment, many things are made of watermelon sugar the inhabitants also use pine wood and stone for building material. The landscape of the novel is always changing. Each day has a different colored sun which creates different colored watermelons, and the central building also changes frequently. The narrator remains un-named throughout the book, and through his first person account we hear the story of the people and the events of iDEATH. The central tension is created by Margaret, once a lover of the narrator, and inBOIL, a rebellious man who has left iDEATH to live near a forbidden area called the Forgotten Works. It is a huge trash heap where the remnants of a former civilization lie abandoned in great piles. Margaret, a collector of such 'forgotten' things, is friendly with inBOIL and his followers, who explore the place and make whiskey. In the violent climax of the novel, inBOIL returns to the community along with a handful of followers, planning to show the residents what iDEATH really is. The residents know only that "something" is about to happen -- for all they know, inBOIL could be plotting to kill ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=147355