I really, really loved this wee novel. I've not read any Brautigan since 'In Watermelon Sugar' back when I was sixteen. A friend has lent me a stack of his books in return for my stash of Maupin books and it's taken me a while to start reading them......having read 'So the Wind Wont Blow it Away', I'm really looking forward to reading the rest.

Some of my favourite excerpts are below:

"I had been standing there so long that my tennis shoes were almost dry. They were at their half-life, which is the best time for tennis shoes. They felt as if they were truly a part of me like an extension of my soles.They were alive at the bottoms of my feet." p.4

"I wondered about his capability and desire to defend the sawmill against sawmill thieves because he looked as if he couldn't defend a marshmallow against a three year old." p.18