The Abortion

Richard Brautigan was born in Washington in 1935. During the 1950's he moved to California and became involved in the Beat Movement while developing his writing career. He died in 1984.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