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Paul Stuewe's review of 'So the Wind'
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by Paul Stuewe?

The author's penchant for combining radically experimental techniques with equally mundane material has attracted a host of imitators, but he still holds the patent on the most effective blend of these ingredients. His latest novel takes a 1940s American family through the random disasters and ominpresent commonplaces of the normative Brautigan opus: it's also typical in its relentlessly straight-faced handling of the most nonsensical situations. This works for just as long as it takes a reader to begin anticipating the against-the-grain results, which in this case is most of the way through a slight but entertaining story.



Quill & Quire?
November 1982: 29.



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