The voyage from San Francisco to Hawaii had been the most terrifying experience Greer and Cameron had ever gone through, even more terrible than the time they shot a deputy sheriff in Idaho ten times and he wouldn't die and Greer finally had to say to the deputy sheriff, "Please die because we don't want to shoot you again".
The Hawkline Monster is a novel written by Richard Brautigan. Released in 1974, it tells of a girl hiring cowboys to kill a monster.
Characters[]
- Magic Child
- Cameron
- Greer
- Miss Hawkline
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Publisher's summary[]
The time is 1902. The setting, eastern Oregon. Magic Child, a 15-year-old Native American girl, wanders into the wrong whorehouse looking for the right men. She finds Cameron and Greer, two gunmen taking a timeout from the game after an aborted job in Hawaii. 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.
But the more she tells them about the monster, the more her story unravels, until it isn't clear if the monster is even real, or if anything else is.
Richard Brautigan's classic surrealist novel has inspired for decades with its wild, witty, and bizarre encounters with western-themed psychedelia.
See also[]
| Title | Author | Release date | Significance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down | Ishmael Reed | 1969 | A similar Western |
| The Beetle Leg | John Hawkes | 1951 | A similar Western |
| The Place of Dead Roads | William S. Burroughs | 1983 | A similar Western |
| Ghost Town | Robert Coover | 1998 | A similar Western |
Sources[]
- Goodreads
- Wikipedia