In fact, it turns out both women are twins. Upon meeting Miss Hawkline – a strangely tall, slender woman with long black hair – both men start to realise that Magic Child looks remarkably like Miss Hawkline. She takes them to Oregon, to the house of Miss Hawkline. Two killers for hire, Cameron and Greer, are procured by Magic Child, a fifteen year old Indian girl. During his short life he published many volumes of poetry and ten novels. Afflicted with alcoholism and mental health issues, he took his life at the age of forty-nine. Born in Tacoma, Washington in 1935, he eventually moved to San Francisco and became a part of the counter culture scene. Richard Brautigan is best known for this novels Trout Fishing in America and In Watermelon Sugar. Strange, brilliant, funny, original – The Hawkline Monster is a trippy classic from a great American writer.
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