The Hawkline Monster

A Gothic Western

By: Richard Brautigan

Narrated by: Johnathan McClain

The time is 1902. The setting, eastern Oregon. Magic Child, a 15-year-old Native American girl, wanders into the wrong whorehouse looking for the right men. She finds Cameron and Greer, two gunmen taking a timeout from the game after an aborted job in Hawaii. Their violent past doesn't concern Magic Child. She wants them to kill a monster for her, one she says lives in the ice caves under the basement of Miss Hawkline's yellow house, and one she says has killed before.

But the more she tells them about the monster, the more her story unravels, until it isn't clear if the monster is even real, or if anything else is.

Richard Brautigan's classic surrealist novel has inspired for decades with its wild, witty, and bizarre encounters with western-themed psychedelia.

©2016 Richard Brautigan (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

lol I enjoyed

loved the narrator and characters. made me laugh n giggle. qhats the next book. kept me interested

So fun

A strange gothic, borderline cosmic horror, or a western. Quick, quirky, and very odd. I dug it a lot. Surreal and atmospheric.

what the hell did I just read

this was one of the weirdest stories I've ever read, and trust me, I've read some crazy things. The only thing that I didn't appreciate about this book was the racial slurs and the casual racism.

The best surreal western

They don’t make writers like this anymore. His writing is non- linear and his points of view are fascinating. I also love his economy with words. Also he grew up poor giving so many of his characters and subjects meaning and legitimacy. Narration is perfect. Don’t miss this one if you find yourself on the fence ( maybe covered in broken glass filled with broken dreams. )

Perfect Brautigan

Top shelf stuff from one of the more underrated authors of the 60s-70s. This book is a great place to start diving in to the brilliance of Brautigan.