City border, sticky lives

"Finally, other remerciements- and probably apologize also- in Niagara Falls. If one would like to believe that the city is exactly as I describe it, I admit that not unequivocal." He's right, Craig Davidson, recalling that his book is a novel is that reality does not equal affliction. And to thus avoid being lynched by the inhabitants of this border town that can not be as grim and pale. Though. Cataract City watch in any case in a particularly gray day - "A shabby town" - instead of traffic and tacky lives. Like those of his two heroes, lifelong friends despite contrary destinies although, again, they meet in a life of losers made to suffer even in their flesh before a glimpse of a light start. As fellow Canadian Boyden, Davidson is master in the art to bring man back to his poor condition, as crushed by the forces of nature. But where the first is often lyrical, the second is more brutal, bruising his characters with an almost masochistic. Davidson is a writer Shots: of fate, but also in the mouth, excuse the expression. This is the virile literature, that is if it means something. Two of anthology pieces emerge, one early in adolescence, the other at the end, to adulthood: two superhuman trials where survival in a hostile environment (forest and snow) that takes into 'by a thread and the connection between the two boys and then the two men. Between these two long sequences, the novel is perhaps less spectacular but be caught up in a contemplative pace that is on the surface. The construction of the book is remarkable and its denouement leaves a strange taste in the mouth. On bones and rust, yes, something like that.