An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey

An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey is Richard Brautigan's eleventh and final published novel. Written in 1982, it was first published (posthumously) in 1994 in a French translation, Cahier d'un Retour de Troie ["Diary of a Return from Troy"]. The first edition in English did not appear until 2000, when it was produced by St. Martin's Press.

Cahier d'un Retour de Troie
First English edition
AuthorRichard Brautigan
Original titleAn Unfortunate Woman: A Journey
TranslatorMarc Chénetier
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
PublisherBourgois
Publication date
1994
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pages110 (U.S. edition)
ISBN0-312-26243-4 (U.S. edition)
Preceded bySo the Wind Won't Blow It All Away 

An Unfortunate Woman assumes the form of a traveler's journal, chronicling the protagonist's journey and his oblique ruminations on the suicide of one woman and the death from cancer of a close friend.


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