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So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away

Richard Brautigan

Paperback | Pages: 144 pages

Rating: 4.05 | 2871 Users | 242 Reviews

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Original Title:	So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away
ISBN:	0385292872 (ISBN13: 9780385292870)
Edition Language:	English

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"So the Wind Won't Blow it all Away" is a beautifully-written, brooding gem of a novel - set in the Pacific Northwest region of Oregon where Brautigan spent most of his childhood. Through the eyes, ears and voice of Brautigan's youthful protagonist the reader is gently led into a small-town tale where the narrator accidentally shoots dead his best friend with a gun. The novel deals with the repercussions of this tragedy and its recurring theme of 'What if...' fuels anguish, regret and self-blame as well as some darkly comic passages of bitter-sweet romance and despair. Taken with the recently discovered, "An Unfortunate Woman", these two late Brautigan novels are a fitting epitaph to a complex, contradictory and often misunderstood genius.

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Title	:	So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away
Author	:	Richard Brautigan
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 144 pages
Published	:	February 1st 1984 by Doubleday (first published 1982)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. American. Americana. Literature

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Ratings: 4.05 From 2871 Users | 242 Reviews

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What an interesting little book. I didn't expect it to like it that much.

That day, he should have bought a hamburger...rather than a case of .22 caliber bullets. The decisions that we make in our life, on any given day, which sometimes boils down to a split-second flash in our minds in which the roads diverge and we take one path and leave the other one behind, can sometimes be the best decisions we ever made in our life but at other times, the repercussions can be devastating. Although Brautigan neither confirmed nor denied it, many think that this novel was based

★★★★½Very melancholy and lacking much of Brautigan's usual humor, but something about it affected me really deeply. There's a great ring of truth about it. I like Brautigan best when he's in that semi-autobiographical mode, where you can tell that what he's writing came from some personal experience, even if it's fictionalized on the page.

An astounding novel by Richard Brautigan that highlights his considerable strengths and exposes none of his manifold weaknesses. It is a very moving story of a childhood accident. The prose is remarkable: the original and often outrageous metaphors and similes that Brautigan loves to use are plentiful here but they never detract from the poignancy of the unfolding tragedy. If anything, they heighten it. There is humour here too, as well as an intense sadness, nostalgia and brooding melancholy.

Brautigan's final novel is him at his most straight forward and most melancholy, but from a sample of a handful of his novellas devoured with great enthusiasm this feels like his most complete portrait of Americana; his surreality and absurdity toned down by the sadness of an old man looking back at what he concludes was the death of American imagination. It's an absolute pleasure to read, Brautigan in full control of his skills as a storyteller and lover of language, the narrative voice perfect

Before Murakami, before Carver, there was Brautigan

A charming, sad, hilarious little novel. A book only Brautigan could have written. I first read it in college and it has continued to haunt me to this day and now I am an old, old man. Like all of Brautigan the book is uneven, but you don't go to him for great literature, you go for that Brautigan voice, that wry humor, the way he makes you feel. This is his most straight forward tale and his best, in my opinion.