Quoyle restait incapable de saisir l'actualité, n'avait aucun sens du détail. Il avait peur de tout, à l'exception d'une quinzaine de verbes. Avec un instinct fatal pour l'utilisation erronée du passif.
"Outside, an hour later, Quoyle at his fire, the aunt taking things out of the food box; eggs, a crushed bag of bread, butter, jam. Sunshine crowded against the aunt, her hands following, seizing packets. The child unwrapped the butter, the aunt spread it with a piece of broken wood for a knife, sti...
Proulx is the author of the short story "Brokeback Mountain" which was made into the film of the same name. I read that short story soon after seeing the movie and remember finding it moving. But Proulx might be one of those authors whose extreme styles are more effective (at least for me) at the sh...
This is my first Proulx, so I don't know if the unusual writing style is typical, or specially chosen for this particular story. I hope it's the latter, as it works very well.It covers a couple of years (plus some backstory) in the life of thirty-something Quoyle: a big, lonely, awkward and unattrac...
I managed to get through this book but only because I was young enough then to think that I had to finish every book I started. While the prose was pretty and intricate, the story was more depressing than I could enjoy. I've never picked up another Proulx book.
Quoyle A coil of ropeA Flemish flake is a spiral coil of one layer only.It is made on deck, so that it may beWalked on, if necessary.THE ASHLEY BOOK OF KNOTSMuch like that coil of rope, our protagonist, Quoyle, has also been stepped on all his life. A great damp loaf of a body. At six he weighed e...
So dark, depressing and bleak I could not get very far into this book. No matter how many times people told me it has a happy ending, my feeling is that it's not worth the slog.
3.75 starsI had a bit of a hard time getting into this book as the style is very different and lyrical.But after getting used to it, I was able to immerse myself in the story which was different than most everything I've read..Sad, depressing and optimistic all at the same time - and the back-drop o...
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