{{Short description|1977 novel by Richard Brautigan}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books --> | name = Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942 | title_orig = | translator = | image = image:DreamingOfBabylon.jpg | caption = First edition cover | author = Richard Brautigan | cover_artist = Craig Nelson | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = | publisher = Delacorte Press/ Seymour Lawrence | release_date = 1977 | media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback) | pages = 220 | isbn = 0-440-02146-4 | isbn_note = (hardback edition) | dewey= 813/.5/4 | congress= PZ4.B826 Dr PS3503.R2736 | oclc= 2964445 | preceded_by = Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel | followed_by = So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away }}
'''''Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942''''' is Richard Brautigan's eighth novel and was published in 1977. It is 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.
==External links== * [http://www.brautiganarchives.xyz/babylon.html Entry on brautigan.net]
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Category:1977 American novels Category:1977 English-language novels Category:Novels by Richard Brautigan Category:Novels set in 1942 Category:American mystery novels Category:Novels set in San Francisco Category:American black comedy novels Category:1970s comedy novels
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