Willard and His Bowling Trophies
Richard Brautigan
167 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0671220659
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Language: English
Publish: 179996400000
20th CenturyAmericanClassicsFantasyFictionHumorLiteratureMysteryNovelsThe United States Of America
The story takes place in San Francisco in the early 1970s. The title character is a papier mache bird that shares the front room of an apartment with a collection of bowling trophies that some time earlier were stolen from the home of the Logan brothers. The human tenants of this apartment are John and Pat, who have just returned from seeing a Greta Garbo movie in a local movie theater. Their neighbors are Bob and Constance, a married couple going through some rough times in their relationship. Because of their failing relationship, Bob becomes depressed. Meanwhile the Logan brothers are looking for their stolen trophies. The brothers have turned their happy life of bowling into a life of vengeance…