Brokeback Mountain is a long short story, almost a novella in length. Its a good length and its nice to see someone use it, because people don't use that length very often.The story is a mix of interesting strengths and weaknesses. The problems are that there are often some artificial sentences th...
This is a novella rather than a full length novel. You can read this in at most a couple of hours even if you read slowly. Still it is a memorable, even though I found it to bee a bit too short for the time it presents. The story lasts several years. And to make it clear, it is not an erotic novel...
This is my first Proulx, so I don't know if the unusual writing style is typical, or specially chosen for this particular story. I hope it's the latter, as it works very well.It covers a couple of years (plus some backstory) in the life of thirty-something Quoyle: a big, lonely, awkward and unattrac...
This breaks my heart every damn time. There's too many unhappy gay love stories, but this one's just beautiful. Every sentence tells a whole novel, really - and more often than not, hits me right in the feels... I read it first years before the movie, but in my head the actors have totally taken ove...
I managed to get through this book but only because I was young enough then to think that I had to finish every book I started. While the prose was pretty and intricate, the story was more depressing than I could enjoy. I've never picked up another Proulx book.
Quoyle A coil of ropeA Flemish flake is a spiral coil of one layer only.It is made on deck, so that it may beWalked on, if necessary.THE ASHLEY BOOK OF KNOTSMuch like that coil of rope, our protagonist, Quoyle, has also been stepped on all his life. A great damp loaf of a body. At six he weighed e...
I love volume one of her Wyoming stories almost this much but not quite, because of Them Old Cowboy Songs, perhaps the sweetest short story I know. It is the love story of newlywed pioneers Archie and Rose, who in 1885 staked out a homestead where the Little Weed comes rattling down from the Sierra ...
The drop to three stars from the five I gave volumes one and three in this series of Wyoming stories diminishes my regard for Proulx not a bit, we all have our ups and downs. Here the writing rallied only once, or perhaps I should say rallied me only once, during the reading of Man Crawling Out of T...
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