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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. Today, we tend to greet the arrival of a new Brautigan work the way we greet the announcement of our 11th class reunion: nothing historic but nice enough if you can fit it into your calendar. 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.
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October 1982: 30.
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