In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan

In Watermelon Sugar is a novel by Richard Brautigan.  It was published in 1968 by the Four Seasons Foundation.  The novel was written between May 13, 1964 and July 19, 1964.  Notes for the novel, however, date to notebooks Brautugan kept as early as 1960.

Brautigan showed the novel to several writer friends for editorial input, but they all declined to comment on the novel.  He was contractually obligated to offer the manuscript to Grove Press, but he declined to do so since Grove had rejected Trout Fishing in America.  Upon publication, the novel was dedicated to Don Allen, Joanne Kryger, and Michael Mclure.

The novel is the story of a commune, the main house of which is called iDEATH.  Many articles in the environment are made of watermelon sugar.  Each day reveals a different-colored sun in the sky, producing, in turn, different-colored watermelons.

Margaret, a former lover of the narrator, begins to keep company with a character named inBOIL.  They visit The Forgotten Works, a trash heap containing artifacts from an ancient civilization.

~William Hammett

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