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American Falls

A child invited to a birthday party will get back to all participants. A young Mexican woman is killed by a junkie. A serial killer returns dirty in her room after having committed the irreparable. A teen falls in love with his babysitter and runaway with it before committing a robbery. Of bumpkins from the depths of the Mississippi kill each other in a road house one evening together. That is just a few examples in this new collection of Barry Gifford. There are many other things, the atmosphere completely different: some are held in Tunisia, Egypt, France, Italy ... But the most relevant are those radiographient the decline of the American Empire.

Barry Gifford is the author of cult Sailor and Lula . It when it becomes a chronicler of the ills of his country that his work takes on a breathtaking scale. The problem with this book is that there are too many differences between the texts. So much so that one wonders if we are not in a book as a whole is heterogeneous. All this looks like a collage of disparate elements so it is difficult to detect any common thread. Another important point is that Gifford likes to tip all these texts in the last sentences. Much like a painter who, having conscientiously applied on the canvas, tears Suddenly cutter.

A collection so strange, a bit wobbly. Nevertheless, I am glad to have discovered a major American writer who has a keen eye on the decay of the American nation. To finish and give you an overview of content, I put this little excerpt is actually the back cover. It also follows the reading of this text that I decided to buy the book, even if ultimately it is only a tiny facet of the collection and its great variety.

"Tico Mariposa took Cookie Cruz in his room above the bar Buena Suerte, corner of Avenues 16 de Septiembre and Pancho Villa. Tired after a day's work, Cookie was in no hurry to go make dinner for her mother, so she accepted the shoot that he offered him. At one point, she faints and when she awoke, Tico was trying to rape her. She screamed so loud that he flung his right fist in the jaw. She was bleeding and crying, Tico the round to try to stick him in the ass.

Cookie crawled on all fours, grabbed a small lamp with no lampshade and swung behind her in Figure Tico; the bulb shattered. Tico Cookie dropped; she jumped up, but too dazed by drugs to keep his feet, she fell back and watched. [...] Tico stood up on his knees, took off slowly the pieces of glass from her face. Then he reached out and grabbed a handgun that he pointed it at her. "

From" Two stories of frontiers ".

American Falls, Barry Gifford, 13th grade editions, 2009. 240 pages. € 19.00.

The more info: 13th editions notes issued in September 2010 a novel entitled Gifford An American education. History in Chicago in 1950-1960, Roy, a child of divorced parents who means well with her parents and successive leads, very young, a double existence: that of a scholar wise, and that a young adult working on Saturdays to earn some pocket money and help his mother.