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Close Range: Wyoming Stories · Sep 26, 07:03 PM

...stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love.

That’s from the card catalog description—I believe—of Annie Proulx’s Close Range: Wyoming Stories. The prose is western like the characters; not strong and silent, it’s the thing that “strong and silent” is sound-bitten off. In Proulx’s Wyoming, people live with broken hearts and breaking dreams and can’t do no good what stands a year—two with luck—before drought or flood sets them back to square one, with love as often as with cattle or crops or children.

Brokeback Mountain frames this collection of short stories, through it’s desperate sense of personal wrongness and stuborn refusal of the world to do a good turn for nobody. I’ll see the movie through this experience just the same, even if it turns out a rote cowboy love tale. You can’t take prose the way Proulx writes, turn out a screenplay, and not inject the sentimentality she left for the reader to supply if he cared.

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