| As the years pass, all the characters act in ways that put them on an eventual collision course | Disconsolate from Charlotte's death, Willard cuts his throat at the prayer log, leaving Arvin Eugene an orphan |
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| Ultimately, Pollock is making an aesthetic point: America has become an ugly place, a place without discernment | There is a lot of brutal action in this book, but the story is so well-told that Pollock draws you in from virtually the first line |
Even when other folks come along that maybe chose for themselves a pathway to hell.
22| The one I know wouldn't say shit if he had a mouthful | Small towns and highways connecting them to other small towns with convenience stores, schools, cornfields, dirt roads, churches, wood-paneled homes and their sheds |
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| طبعًا، لقد أتى دور ضابط الشرطة بعد الشكوك التي حامت حول ابن المحارب، ليلقى المصير نفسه في نهاية المطاف | You might want to think about that |
Still, Arvin grows into a young man simply trying to make his way in a tough old world, helping his family anyway he can.
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