Brokeback Mountain | Dean Bakopoulos
In the following review, Bakopoulos calls "Brokeback Mountain" a "tender and heartbreaking love story" an Close Range a "moving and wise collection."
Dean Bakopoulos
In the following review, Bakopoulos calls "Brokeback Mountain" a "tender and heartbreaking love story" and Close Range a "moving and wise collection."
The American West has been a favorite setting for many of the heavy-weights of contemporary fiction: Cormac McCarthy, Rick Bass, Jim Harrison, Ivan Doig, and Richard Ford. Women who set their stories in Big Sky country (Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho) have not received the same critical acclaim and publishing hullabaloo as their male counterparts.
Enter Annie Proulx. She has only five...
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