So The Wind Won’t Blow It All Away

Needless to say, America has changed from those days of 1948.

If you saw a twelve-year-old kid with a rifle standing in front of a filling station today, you’d call out the National Guard. And with good cause. The kid would probably be standing in the middle of a pile of bodies.

But in 1948 the world wasn’t like that. There were still such things as dignity and innocence. Still some sense of reason and order in the world. Though not, of course, for long…

SO THE WIND WON’T BLOW IT ALL AWAY

At once tragic and comic, sharply funny and tenderly evocative, snappily ironic and strangely wistful – Richard Brautigan at his unique and eccentric best.