There's a wonderful scene halfway through this novel, in a car during a heavy, wet snowstorm. The characters are stranded, one worrying about how long the engine will run, how long the heater will work, how far it might take to walk to a store through the clogged and draining snowdrifts, whether they might be hit and killed by a snowplough if they abandon the car. The other character sucks Chupa Chups and idly fantasises.A nameless narrator preys on the lonely and directionless, two brothers bicker and fight over a girl who is intrigued by neither of them. The novel is fastidiously and thoroughly soundtracked, and there are no accidents in it.
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