The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western

Richard Brautigan's classic surrealist novel has inspired readers for decades with its wild, witty, and bizarre pairing of westerns and psychedelia.<br/><br/>The time is 1902, the setting eastern Oregon. Magic Child, a fifteen-year-old Native American girl, wanders into the wrong whorehouse looking for the right men.<br/><br/>She finds Cameron and Greer, two gunmen taking a timeout from the game after an aborted job in Hawaii.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>But the more she tells them about the monster, the more her story unravels until it isnt clear if the monster is even real, or if anything else is.<br/><br/>Richard Brautigan's classic surrealist novel has inspired readers for decades with its wild, witty, and bizarre encounters with western-themed psychedelia.