Synopsis
Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel. Richard Brautigan's eighth novel and was published in 1977. It's a black comedy set in San Francisco in 1942. The central character, C. Card, is no Sam Spade, but actually does do detective work of a sort, when he's not off dreaming of Babylon.
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