Ebook {Epub PDF} So the Wind Wont Blow it All Away by Richard Brautigan

First published in , So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away was Richard Brautigan's ninth published novel and the last published before his death in The novel focuses on the death of a young boy in a shooting accident in a western Oregon town on Saturday, 17 February  · So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away by Richard Brautigan. So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away is a captivating coming-of-age story about a twelve-year-old boy who lives in rural Oregon during the s. It is told from the perspective of the boy when he has grown up, his mind traveling back to his youth, 32 years later. 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 Cited by: 1.

SO THE WIND WON'T BLOW IT ALL AWAY eerily forshadows Brautigan's suicide. It speaks to the youth in all of us and carries a great sense of nostalgia. Taken in context with his life and its end shortly after writing this book, it feels like a depressed man looking back at the golden years with complete fondness. So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away: It is , 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, and published in , this novel foreshadowed Brautigan's suicide. First edition of this rare Brautigan novel in "as is" condition. A good reading copy with some damage inside boards but clean pages inside.

Background. First published in , So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away was Richard Brautigan's ninth published novel and the last published before his death in The novel focuses on the death of a young boy in a shooting accident in a western Oregon town on Saturday, 17 February So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away is a captivating coming-of-age story about a twelve-year-old boy who lives in rural Oregon during the s. It is told from the perspective of the boy when he has grown up, his mind traveling back to his youth, 32 years later. 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.