false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1222621317m/4823392.jpg 62220 13 Regretful and suffused with sadness, <I>So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away</I>, Richard Brautigan's final novel prior to his death by suicide in 1984, strikes a more sombre note that the earlier work that made him a famous figure in the American beat scene of the 1960s. Tracing the events leading ineluctably to the teenage narrator's accidental shooting of his best friend in post-World War Two Pacific West America, Brautigan employs the same elliptical word play and exhibits the same joy in the possibilities of language as in earlier works such as <I>Trout Fishing in America</I>. However, the narrative is shot through with a sense of sadness for a lost way of life, the departure of childhood and the death of the American gothic, something Brautigan blames on television for the way it "crippled the imagination of America and turned people indoors and away from living out their fantasies with dignity". <p> <I>So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away</I> 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 <I>So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away</I> 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. --<I>Jane Morris</I> 971601 1982 So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away total:297|5:126|4:94|3:58|2:15|1:4| 297 1214 394 25 5 0 false false Fri Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 06:06:28 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 06:50:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 24 05:10:22 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 05:15:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 09:48:01 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 09:54:37 -0800 2009 2
I feel like Brautigan has an uncanny ability to depict the mind of a 12 year old in a way that it interesting and ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 05 21:43:39 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 13:53:59 -0700 2009 Revenge of the Lawn or Trout Fishing in America and ultimately serves as a novel-length suicide note. more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Apr 08 00:11:13 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 08 01:18:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Dec 13 18:20:10 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 19:07:25 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Apr 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 09:43:49 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 13:50:02 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Mon Jan 12 00:31:22 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 00:37:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Jul 17 21:52:46 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 22:16:20 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Oct 15 22:02:52 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 22:03:30 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Apr 13 08:21:42 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 08:24:24 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Jan 23 06:42:23 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 06:45:00 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1981 Mon Jan 19 09:16:01 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 09:17:22 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1982 Thu Jun 18 21:20:37 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 21:21:44 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Nov 30 10:51:27 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 10:53:09 -0800 2008 3 1 false false Mon Oct 27 08:48:49 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 18 12:33:22 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 08:48:49 -0700 2008 1 a 12years old boy is the main character n also the narrator.we see n study american society in 40s to 70s with his eyes.
Story is full of parody,irony,comic gestures n many postmodern techniques.
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