Trout Fishing in America is a novella written by Richard Brautigan and published in 1967. It is technically Brautigan's first novel; he wrote it in 1961 before A Confederate General from Big Sur, which was published first.
“Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream.
I'm not, she said.”
Source: Trout Fishing in America
“I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.”
Source: Trout Fishing in America
“He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.”
Source: Trout Fishing in America
