A wonderful rediscovery. The basic plot entails young Bob scouring the Texas Panhandle for sites for hog farms. What we get is a glorious welter of characters, all with their idiosyncratic stories and all dead set against hog farms. As in The Shipping News, landscape - here vast parched distances - and violent weather become characters in their own right. Proulx is a splendid story teller and I chortled from beginning to end.
(Annabel Bedini - bwl 92 Spring 2019 ) |
