Close Range: Wyoming Stories
Annie Proulx · 1999
"Brokeback Mountain" lives here, alongside other stories of the brutal, beautiful American West. Proulx writes the land itself as a character.
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Misery arrives on schedule: maimings, frozen corpses, rodeo wreckage, failed ranches. Proulx allows nobody a break, and by the fourth mutilation the bleakness reads as mannerism. The prose is mannered too, all clotted compression and names like Diamond Felts and Car Scrope. 'Brokeback Mountain' deserves its fame; some of its neighbors are just weather, gristle, and punishment.
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