So The Wind Won't Blow it all Away [Unabridged] [Hardcover]

Richard Brautigan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1982 | ISBN-10: 0440081955 | ISBN-13: 978-0440081951 | Edition: First Printing

It is 1979, and a man is recalling the events of his twelfth summer, when he bought bullets for his gun instead of a hamburger. Written just before his death, this novel foreshadowed Brautigan's suicide. It was originally published in 1982.

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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About the Author

Richard Brautigan's comic genius and countercultural vision of American life made him a literary idol of the 1960s and 1970s. His books became required reading for the beat generation, and Trout Fishing in America sold more than two million copies throughout the world. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 131 pages
• Publisher: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence; First Printing edition (1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0440081955
• ISBN-13: 978-0440081951
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,203,296 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Brautigan's last work was most powerful and effective, January 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: So The Wind Won't Blow it all Away (Hardcover)

In this, the last novel he wrote before his suicide by shotgun in 1985, Richard Brautigan returned to the source of all his strongest previous fiction: his marginal, unhappy childhood in the Pacific Northwest. In earlier and better known works Brautigan comes off as a playful, whimsical fantasy-smith almost as interested in amusing himself as in communicating with the reader; but in "So The Wind.." that has changed. The Brautigan who writes this book is a sad but not humorless veteran of life who is trying hard to get his message across to us. The central narrative passage of the book seems to be barely-disguised autobiography, telling the story of an accidental shooting in which the narrator (Brautigan?) killed his best friend in a small Oregon town in the 1950s. This sequence is "framed" by a circular narrative in a much lighter mood; here Brautigan is using a technique normally associated with Latin American "magical realism". The book contains some of Brautigan's most lucid writing. I first read Richard Brautigan when I was 15 in 1972, and I have read most of his work in prose and poetry. For its literary complexity and human depths, I would consider "So The Wind.." his best work. It's a shame the book is out of print.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE WIND CANT ERASE, June 4, 2003

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david (ALaMO usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: So The Wind Won't Blow it all Away (Hardcover)

he takes you in into his heart in this one. the lost that he feels innocense blown away the ache in its place. Its a very ERRIE placeBrautigan walks us through a vanishing america wistfuly he must recover a past thats alreay extinct. HE THINKS THRU BACKWARDS PLACE METAPHORS AND SYMBOLS OF REGRET.places like tombstones on his path to escape an unfortunate act.AS always theres the random wonder in .

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE WIND CANT ERASE, June 4, 2003

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david (ALaMO usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: So The Wind Won't Blow it all Away (Hardcover)

he takes you in into his heart in this one. the lost that he feels innocense blown away the ache in its place. Its a very ERRIE placeBrautigan walks us through a vanishing america wistfuly he must recover a past thats alreay extinct. HE THINKS THRU BACKWARDS PLACE METAPHORS AND SYMBOLS OF REGRET.places like tombstones on his path to escape an unfortunate act.AS always theres the random wonder in .