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So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away is hugely underrated in the Brautigan canon. Although the story is set in the 1940s, the elegiac tone places the novel firmly within the context of the 1980s when it was first published. Brautigan took his own life two years after the novel's publication and the narrator's sense of alienation from modern America seems to mirror the way that his free-wheeling, free-associating sensibility had become hopelessly out of touch with the pervading culture of the time. But that is precisely why this small, beautifully sad novel is so important. Whereas in earlier works, Brautigan's characters viewed the world with child-like fascination and amusement, in So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away he reverses the process by examining a child's world through an adult's sad and diminishing gaze. It's a summation of all that Brautigan had previously achieved but in the harsher, colder climate of the late 20th century. --Jane Morris
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. The boards are a bit shelf rubbed and marked.sunned.No inscriptions.Well bound.EK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Seller Inventory # kn72
Book Description Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:0224020986. Seller Inventory # 8966408
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st thus. Brautigan's penultimate novel, published in 1982, a couple of years before he decided he'd had enough, and shot himself (the story that he left a note reading, "Messy, isn't it?" turns out to be apocryphal, which is kinda sad, because it would have been a terrific comment on both the act and the life that got him to that point). Black cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 131 pages. Tanning, a bit of general wear, in rubbed dust jacket w/impressions/scratches. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 019279
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition UK. Very good condition first UK edition hardcover with clipped dust jacket, original J Cape price label (£7.95) is attached above the clipped edge. Jacket is scuffed, and edges are creased and nicked. Board spine ends are bumped, and page block and page edges are tanned. Pages are otherwise clear, boards are clean and binding is sound. LW. Used. Seller Inventory # 542992
Book Description Hardback. Condition: Fine. First U.k. Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. ISBN: 0224020986 Pages: 144 Text very slightly browned, otherwise fine in fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # C64123
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine price-clipped dust jacket. So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away centers around the death of a young boy in a shooting accident in a western Oregon town in 1948. Although he never confirmed or denied the connection, the story was thought to be somewhat autobiographical, built on two separte incidents that happened to Brautigan when he was thirteen. Seller Inventory # 26124
Book Description Condition: Very Good. Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. Seller Inventory # 0224020986-2-3