Brokeback Mountain | Critical Overview
The response to Close Range: Wyoming Stories and especially "Brokeback Mountain" was overwhelmingly positive. Dean Bakopoulos, in The Progressive, considers Close Range a "well-crafted collection" claiming, "this is powerful fiction, and somehow Proulx manages to give each story the plot, depth of character, sense of setting, and thematic weight of an entire novel." Rita D. Jacobs in an article for World Literature Today praises the collection's "luscious prose" and "evocative descriptions" that make "a strong impression" on the reader.
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