Title: A Private in Babylon - Richard Brautigan - book
Summary :
"I have to admit, this book pissed me off. I've written thrillers too: I still have the complete series on my shelf; I give almost all of them away for having written the adventures of the guy who finds himself one morning in a San Francisco cemetery with four Black men full of razors around him, a scolding mother who accuses him of having killed his father when he was four years old with a rubber bullet, who has, as a bonus, a corpse in the refrigerator and, in his head, suspended, all the gardens of Babylon, the very place where Smith Smith, the greatest baseball player of all time, fights against robot shadows and mercury crystals.
Big Brautigan. »