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So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away (Arena Books) Paperback – Import, February 6, 1986

by Richard Brautigan (Author)
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  1. Print length
    144 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Vintage
  4. Publication date
    February 6, 1986
  5. ISBN-10
    0099391007
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0099391005
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage; New Ed edition (February 6, 1986)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0099391007
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0099391005
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.2 ounces
  • Customer Reviews:
    5.0 5.0 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

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Jeff Tigchelaar
5.0 out of 5 stars but now it might be my new favorite Brautigan. As always
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2018
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Hadn't even heard of this one, but now it might be my new favorite Brautigan. As always, a serious and fun read.
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ELBSeattle
5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite Brautigan
Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2020
I've read all of Brautigan's books, several many times. This is the one I go back to time and time again. The first page of this book is one of the most perfect beginnings for any book ever. Richard Brautigan was truly one-of-a-kind, and American original, one whose voice is slowly being erased by the same with that is blowing away all the dust ... American dust.
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Michael Hoffman
5.0 out of 5 stars Elegy to a lost America
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2007
From a survey of reviews of Brautigan's work here at Amazon, it seems he is lost to Gen X or whatever they're calling "youth" these days. They don't "get" him, but maybe they should avoid "Trout Fishing in America" which is supposed to be his all-time classic. The three that truly deserve a place in the canon are "The Hawkline Monster," "Willard and his Bowling Trophies" (both written while Brautigan was in the ascendant) and this one, "So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away," his semi-autobiographical elegy to a lost America; not sentimental or maudlin, but mournful and challenging. I have never forgotten the scene of Brautigan and another soaking-wet ragamuffin shooting apples with .22s in an abandoned orchard, while the rain poured. "We were Pacific Northwest kids!" he shouts with defiant joy. The terminal scene, with the couple who take their couch with them fishing, teaches that living one's dreams necessarily entails exhibiting one's "eccenctricity" (actually authenticity). Brautigan did away with himself in his 40s due to a wife who fled, along with a career on the skids and alcohol (allegedly), but readers of this book know there was more to it than those merely contributing factors. Brautigan didn't want to pick up the pieces of his self after it had been homogenized and processed as we are now, in an age where we spend so much time staring at TV sets and video screens, and being stared at in return by "security" cameras. Suicide is a terrible wrong, but this little volume shows that Brautigan did not wish to endure the torments of a 21st century-style modernity, for fear of how he would be diminished by it. I liked him for many disparate and "crazy" reasons, including the fact that he was a true Oregonian westerner, Montana transplant and disparager of everything for which Woody Allen stands. Bruatigan and Keoruac could only have been Americans...The wind has blown a lot of it away, but maybe not all.
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Michael
5.0 out of 5 stars American Dust
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2013
An incredible book by a brilliant writer. It's about a boy who seems to know too much about death for his age, and is followed by death wherever he goes. After reading this, I realized that death is one of Brautigan's major themes. I'm thinking particularly of The Abortion and An Unfortunate Woman. So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away (Dust, American Dust) really helped me to understand him more as a writer, and it makes me want to reread all his other books.
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Jackson
5.0 out of 5 stars Not only my favorite Brautigan, but one of my all-time favorite books
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2018
Hilarious, nostalgic, and devastatingly sad. It will stick with me for a long time
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B. Drake
5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite books
Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2006
I agree with those below who consider this Brautigran's best work. I'll add that SO THE WIND is among my favorite books of all time, fiction or nonfiction. It does take you to an absolutely singular emotional/geographic landscape. Each sentence feels like it's reeling you further and further into the truth. I first read the book when I was 23, on the advice of a friend. It blew me away. :) Still does.
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B. Mernit
5.0 out of 5 stars Unjustly underrated, elegiac novel one of Brautigan's best
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 1998
Though his earlier books still tend to hog the spotlight, sad Richard's swan song is a gem, with dark depths and a weight far beyond that of some of his more playful works. It's a tight, compact piece that really sings, however mournfully, and it's a shame it was received with an indifference that may have nailed in one more plank on the ladder to Brautigan's unfortunate demise. Its reissue in one volume with "Abortion" and "Lawn" will hopefully get the book the attention it deserves, among both the converted and the un.
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