BK: Richard Brautigan - So The Wind Won’t Blow It All Away 1st Ed PB Rare/OOP

Cond: VG+ (some minor wear/age and a note written in pen on first blank page)

Notes: Rare 1st Ed PB

"If you came of age in the late Sixties, Richard Brautigan was one of the staples in your pop-culture diet. He was the good angel on your shoulder, the counterculture's answer to Walter Cronkite... His latest, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away, is a deceptive charmer. The protagonist of this novella is a young boy who kills his best friend in a hunting accident. Brautigan takes his normal style—that slightly astonished, awestruck voice we attribued to altered states— back to his childhood roots. It works. The story is deft, moving, almost elegant in its indirection. Add it to your collection, if not for old-time's sake, for quality's." - Playboy

First published in 1982, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away was Richard Brautigan's ninth published novel and the last published before his death in 1984.

The novel focuses on the death of a young boy in a shooting accident in a western Oregon town on Saturday, 17 February 1948. Although he never confirmed or denied the connection, the story was thought to be autobiographical, built on an incident that happened to Brautigan at age thirteen.

The story in Brautigan's novel was created from two separate incidents. The first involved Brautigan, his best friend Pete Webster, and Pete's brother, Danny. The three were duck hunting in the Fern Ridge wetlands, near Eugene, Oregon. Brautigan was separated from the other two. Brautigan fired at a duck and a pellet from his shot struck Danny in the ear, injuring him only slightly. About the same time, Donald Husband, 14-year-old son of a prominent Eugene attorney, was shot and killed in a hunting accident off Bailey Hill Road. Brautigan's incident and that involving Husband became one in this novel (Bob Keefer and Quail Dawning 2H).

The novel sold less than 15,000 copies, and was ignored or dismissed by critics."

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