The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966

Richard Brautigan

Fiction (U.S.), 226 pages
Publisher: Simon and Schuster; 8th edition, March 23, 1971 (originally published 1966)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 067120873X
ISBN-13: 978-0671208738
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A reclusive young man works in a San Francisco library for unpublishable books. Life’s losers, an astonishing number of whom seem to be writers, can bring their manuscripts to the library, where they will be welcomed, registered and shelved. They will not be read, but they will be cherished. In comes Vida, with her manuscript. Her book is about her gorgeous body in which she feels uncomfortable. The librarian makes her feel comfortable, and together they live in the back of the library until a trip to Tijuana changes them in ways neither of them had ever expected.