Trout Fishing in America / The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar is an omnibus edition of three counterculture classics by Richard Brautigan that embody the spirit of the 1960s.

Trout Fishing in America is by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco through America's rural waterways.

In Watermelon Sugar expresses the mood of a new generation, revealing death as a place where people travel the length of their dreams, rejecting violence and hate.

The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster is a collection of nearly 100 poems, first published in 1968.

Paris in the spring of 1968. The city is beginning to emerge from hibernation, and an obscure spirit of social and political renewal is in the air. Yet Théo, his twin sister Isabelle, and Matthew, an American student they have befriended, think only of immersing themselves in another, addictive form of hibernation: moviegoing at the Cinémathèque Française.

Night after night, they take their place beside their fellow cinephiles in the very front row of the stalls and feast insatiably off the images that flicker across the vast white screen. Denied their nightly 'fix' when the French government suddenly orders the Cinémathèque's closure, Théo, Isabelle, and Matthew gradually withdraw into a hermetically sealed world of their own creation.

An airless universe of obsessive private games, ordeals, humiliations, and sexual jousting which finds them shedding their clothes and their inhibitions with equal abandon. A vertiginous free fall interrupted only, and tragically, when the real world outside their shuttered apartment succeeds at last in encroaching on their delirium.

The study of a triangular relationship whose perverse eroticism contrives nevertheless to conserve its own bruised purity, brilliant in its narrative invention and startling in its imagery, The Dreamers belongs to the romantic French tradition of Les Enfants Terribles and Le Grand Meaulnes and resembles no other work in recent British fiction.