What strikes the reader of this short but powerful news is the harshness of Annie Proulx style, no glamor here, the words are precise, employees at the right time, the concise but effective descriptive passages. The epoch (63 to 83), the environment (rural America), are made primarily through finements rare dialogues "American patois" (this is where translation reaches its limits, I invite you to dive in version original). This singular history, chronicle of a life, touches the heart because it raises many questions that can find no answers. The two men at the center of this melodrama are prisoners of their class and their condition, in an archaic society where dying to love seems the only solution. Terrible and beautiful.
