Willard & His Bowling Trophies Review

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(More customer reviews)If Willard can win Bowling Trophies, then Brautigan deserves a posthumous Pulitzer, Nobel Prize and every other literary award under the sun. While this book has never garnered the sort of praise, let alone commercial success of his first published novel "Confederate General From Big Sur" or "Trout Fishing In America," this book, this small, humble book about a bird, high crimes and genital warts, deserves more hype. Brautigan's play of emotions, blending humor with sorrow and melancholy shows the true bredth of his talent. Both as a poet and as a novelist, he understood the value and economy of words and spent them wisely. He never saw the need to write an opus of Michener weight, instead, he let the strength and beauty of his prose do the work. Each syllable bears more meaning than whole chapters of Grisham or other modern-day hacks. Willard may not seem so great a work to those seeking expansive commentary on the state of society or meaning of life, but they likely miss those points in Brautigan's work, as they are blended ever so subtly within his writing. I defy anyone to read this book and not be moved, to not feel pain at its ending. Like Milan Kundera, Brautigan's character's matter.

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