Richards always looks at what passes as the underside of society - the marginal, the poor, the inarticulate, the forgotten. Not much happens in the story itself, but the voice the story is told in is everything. It is third person, but the language is the voice of the marginalized characters that are the heroes of the story - Joe Walsh and his wife. I recognize the voice as that of some of my older relatives from Quebec, but with an edge that comes from a desperation and chaos that they did not know.
As usual, the educated and socially pretentious get skewered....
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