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by Kevin Kenny?
At its core So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away is a story which details a tragic shooting and death. the narrator, an impoverished but resourceful 14-year-old, pulled the trigger which fired the bullet that could have as easily gone unsolf. Led by a narrator who is "lost in the geography of time," Richard Brautigan's latest work is a sometimes wandering, but always touching, salute to an era and way of life (particularly early life) forever gone. The first antenna, hints Brautigan, was the death toll for the imagination which marks childhood, the force which "turned people indoors and away from living out their own fantasies with dignity. Given the dignity and animation of the characters recalled herein, this is both a sad and cogent analysis.
Like his past novels (Trout Fishing in America, In Watermelon Sugar, etc.), this is both subtle and perceptive. At work at many levels, better readers, particularly at the high school level, should have the perspective necessary to enjoy this treat. For adults, it's a bittersweet must.
VOYA?
February 1983: 32.
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