The “small American town losing speed”: well -known place where life, with its illusions, seems behind you. North Bath, agglomeration between working class et middle class Imagined by the American novelist Richard Russo who lived in the area, somewhere between New York and Boston, it's Peyton when everyone is trampled; One of the multiple garage routes of the American dream. Which is an elephant that is very much. So there are a lot of human albatrosses and broken mirrors in this new novel, Sully's will. It is even only that. Reading their stories, their back and forth is helping to repair them. The reader, this nurse. But not only. We are in America: the cripples always have a little more energy than despair.
The story takes place in 2010, over three days (Saturday, Sunday, Monday) and 500 pages. There are a lot of flashbacks and changes in views. All this requires a minimum of concentration, of obstinacy. We sometimes hang out in the book like the characters in their lives, as if we had drunk too much. We have a hangover. We slide on the sidewalk and situations. We advance, we go back. We skate, we move. A good and solid novelist like this does not write for people in a hurry or indifferent, especially when it loops
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