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Name: The abortion
Author: Richard Brautigan

The novel follows a young, reclusive librarian in San Francisco who works in a library for unpublishable books. He welcomes a diverse group of writers—many considered life’s losers—offering them a place to have their manuscripts registered, shelved, and cherished, though they are never read. When Vida arrives with a manuscript exploring her own voluminous body, the librarian helps her feel comfortable, and the two begin living together in the library’s back quarters. A trip to Tijuana unexpectedly changes both of them in profound ways.

First publish date: 1971

Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction

Authors: Richard Brautigan

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