

So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away
Author: Richard Brautigan
Narrator: Chris Andrew Ciulla
Unabridged: 3 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 11/15/2016
Categories: Fiction
Author: Richard Brautigan
Narrator: Chris Andrew Ciulla
Unabridged: 3 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 11/15/2016
Categories: Fiction
Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) was a literary idol of the 1960s and 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vision of American life caught the imagination of young people everywhere. He was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington, and moved to San Francisco in the mid-1950s when he became involved in the emerging beat scene. During the 1960s, he became one of the most prominent and prolific writers of the counterculture. Out of this period came some of his most famous works, the best known of which are Trout Fishing in America; his collection of poetry, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster; and his collection of stories, Revenge of the Lawn. Translated the world over, his works helped establish him as one of the most significant American writers of his generation. As his popularity waned towards the end of the 1970s, he became increasingly disillusioned about his work and his life. He committed suicide in 1984. He was the author of eleven novels, ten volumes of poetry, a collection of short stories, and miscellaneous nonfiction pieces, works that often employed parody, satire, and black comedy.
Chris Andrew Ciulla, an Earphones Award–winning narrator with over 350 credits, is an on-screen actor, voice actor, host, boxing analyst, and radio personality. He has performed characters for the popular video game series Fallout and Mafia, and can be heard frequently voicing commercial campaigns. A versatile performer with over twenty-five years of experience, he produces original audio content under his own production banner, Leonardo Audio.
“Poetic, gently eccentric, and deeply poignant, the story is a fitting swansong for his life.” Times (London)
“The verbal humor and zany charm of the book remain quite irresistible.” Daily Telegraph (London)
“Life is taken back to bare essentials in his books, never more so than here but life is never so rich. If someone ever made a movie of this, good people would watch it a hundred times and never tire of it.” Beat Scene
“Brautigan gets you drunk on similes, knocks you out with exquisite turns of phrase, and leaves you with an ending that hits the entire novel out of the ballpark…Amazing.” Uncut
“Sad and tender; and this little sonata on loss, loneliness, death, and nostalgia…is Brautigan’s most appealing work in some time.” Kirkus Reviews