Trout Fishing in AmericaRichard Brautigan's wonderfully zany, hilarious episodic novel is set amongst the rural waterways of America. Here's a journey that begins at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco's Washington Square, wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways and ends, inevitably, with mayonnaise. With pure inventiveness and free wheeling energy, the counterpoint to all those angry Beatniks, Brautigan tells the story of rural America