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Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard Brautigan
Publisher: Mariner Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 33191
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 544
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 1.5
ISBN: 0395706742
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
UPC: 046442706742
EAN: 9780395706749
ASIN: 0395706742
Publication Date: February 21, 1995
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Product Description
Three unforgettable Brautigan masterpieces reissued in a one-volume omnibus edition.
REVENGE OF THE LAWN: Originally published in 1971, these bizarre flashes of insight and humor cover everything from "A High Building in Singapore" to the "Perfect California Day." This is Brautigan's only collection of stories and includes "The Lost Chapters of TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA."
THE ABORTION: AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE 1966: A public library in California where none of the books have ever been published is full of romantic possibilities. But when the librarian and his girlfriend must travel to Tijuana, they have a series of strange encounters in Brautigan's 1971 novel.
SO THE WIND WON'T BLOW IT ALL AWAY: It is 1979, and a man is recalling the events of his twelfth summer, when he bought bullets for his gun instead of a hamburger. Written just before his death, and published in 1982, this novel foreshadowed Brautigan's suicide.
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 brautigan tha very best January 8, 2008
i think richard brautigan is one of the best writters america ever had.
its a shame he killed himself at the age of 49 ,if he stayed alive he could have write a lot more.
when you read him you have the sensation that youre back at the 70' with the hippie revolution ,bob dylan , woodstock and the big chevrolets the u.s.a used to have.
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Making the Ordinary Sacred July 30, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
When I was an art student at East Carolina University back in the 80's, a friend gave me a copy of REVENGE OF THE LAWN. As I look back now, I realize Brautigan's book was probably the beginning of my slow change from wanting to be an artist to wanting to be a writer. I had never read anything like Brautigan's work before, and for many years I couldn't understand why his stories and poems moved me so. I now understand it is because of Brautigan's ability to make ordinary details sacred. For instance in the story "Coffee" in REVENGE OF THE LAWN, Brautigan says, "Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords." In this tender story about the end of love, Brautigan reveals that the accoutrements needed to make the coffee are laid out at his lover's house "like a funeral service" and that the cup of coffee is "safely inside me like a grave." Herein is the magic of Brautigan's ability: to raise the mundane act of drinking coffee to a ceremony of death.
This is an especially good volume of Brautigan's works. THE ABORTION begins by describing a bizarre library wherein everyone's books are welcomed and handled lovingly by the proprietors. This certainly evokes the hope of every writer--that his or her efforts would be handled lovingly by readers. However, this was not the case with Brautigan's final book, SO THE WIND WON'T BLOW IT ALL AWAY, included in this volume. The critics panned it, often comparing it to the work that first brought him fame and continued to overshadow his subsequent works: TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA. I cannot express strongly enough how wrong I think critics were in their assessment of SO THE WIND WON'T BLOW IT ALL AWAY. Indeed, I believe it is my favorite of all Brautigan's works. It has all the characteristics of his earlier works--idiosyncratic characters, humor, heartbreaking tragedy--but this work seems especially wistful and wise. It is as though Brautigan looked back over his life and captured the whole of it in this one haunting story.
Brautigan's writing has deeply affected many people. Several years ago, I read in the newspaper that a teenaged boy changed his name to "Trout Fishing in America." In the early years of his career, he had many fans. I think his work is timeless and has the power to attract many new admirers.
 Brautigan's the best, but this is not his best August 31, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I discovered Brautigan recently and have been reading everything I can get my hands on of his. There's three collections of three books. The one with TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA and IN WATERMELON SUGAR is the best one to get if you're only going to get one. But this one is good as well.
REVENGE OF THE LAWN, a collection of short stories, has some great two- and three-pagers that display typical Brautigan wit, humor, and insight. Some, as with any collection, are better than others.
THE ABORTION is one of Brautigan's better plots. And I say this because his style and sense of humor is pretty consistent through all of his work, and you either love it or hate it. If you hate it, you won't like any of his stuff. If you like it, then you'll probably like this one. It seems more original than some of his genre parody stories like THE HAWKLINE MONSTER and DREAMING OF BABYLON. It also seems like it may be a little autobiographical, so the emotion in it feels more real.
SO THE WIND WON'T BLOW IT ALL AWAY eerily forshadows Brautigan's suicide. It speaks to the youth in all of us and carries a great sense of nostalgia. Taken in context with his life and its end shortly after writing this book, it feels like a depressed man looking back at the golden years with complete fondness.
Overall, I'd say this is the second best of the Brautigan collections available.
 So totally overblown May 25, 2004
1 out of 33 found this review helpful
This guy's is so completely overrated. It's cut-rate stuff, it rings false, it's precious and silly and utterly dull writing. If you really get into this kind of thing, you'd probably be better served to go back to some of the better Tom Robbins material, who, though he's cloying (and can be awfully irritating), at least does this kind of thing more artfully. This is everything that's bogus and annoying about latter-20th-Century California 'Literature.' Ugh.
So the Wind ... I fell down laughing! January 22, 2003
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I remember reading So The Wind Won't Blow it All Away for the first time. I was riding in a greyhound bus with the scent of blue hair ladies in front of me. Brautigan discussed his childhood love of cheesburgers and Superman and I couldn't stop laughing. The bus driver had to pull over and take me off the bus to ask me to shut up. Brautigan is a master of words. His visions are fresh and celebratory. I could read his work over and over. If this is your first Brautigan book you will not be let down. He hasn't written a book that will let you down. This one is no exception. Probably his finest three books in one!
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