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A Confederate General from Big Sur

By: Richard Brautigan
Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
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Summary

California, 1957. Lee Mellon believes he is the descendant of the only Confederate general to have come from Big Sur and is himself a seeker of truth in his own modern-day war against the status quo.

For the first time in audio, A Confederate General from Big Sur was the late Richard Brautigan's first published novel, written when he was 28.

©1964 Richard Brautigan (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction
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It was weird, it was good, it was Brautigan, I expected nothing less. Really enjoyable.

Well…….

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But all in all I’m glad it was this short. Maybe it just wasn’t for me.

It had its moments…

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Have always highly rated RBs writing enjoyable to have this book so well read I will listen to them all.

Revisiting

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Not a review, but a content warning for virulent homophobia to the extent of 22 instances of "rich Queer" in 5 pages who is purely there as a figure of ridicule and to be threatened with violence.

Wildly Homophobic

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