Williwaw: A Novel

A Novel
WILLIWAW
A NOVEL
By GORE VIDAL
1946 E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY, INC. NEW YORK
Copyright, 1946, by E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A.
FIRST EDITION
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For Nina
Note: Williwaw is the Indian word for a big wind peculiar to the Aleutian islands and the Alaskan coast. It is a strong wind that sweeps suddenly down from the mountains toward the sea. The word williwaw, however, is now generally used to describe any big and sudden wind. It is in this last and more colloquial sense that I have used the term.