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The title character of this work wants to have Maria Callas as a girlfriend to eat a "Compote of Apples." A couple who lived in the title hotel owned a cat named 208, and in another section a character is able to make his own reality without sugar in "The Kool-Aid Wino." Written by the author of (*) In Watermelon Sugar, in the section "Knock On Wood" Pittsburgh is described as the Carnegie of the titular fish. For 10 points – name this abstract work, a novella by Richard Brautigan.
The title character of this work wants to have Maria Callas as a girlfriend to eat a "Compote of Apples.
{Trout Fishing} in {America}