Brokeback Mountain | Rita D. Jacobs
In the following review, Jacobs praises Proulx for her mastery of the short story form in "Brokeback Mountain."
Rita D. Jacobs
In the following review, Jacobs praises Proulx for her mastery of the short story form in "Brokeback Mountain."
Annie Proulx is perhaps best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Shipping News and for her luscious prose, which is also in evidence in Close Range in evocative descriptions like the following: "It was her voice that drew you in, that low, twangy voice, wouldn't matter if she was saying the alphabet, what you heard was the rustle of hay. She could make you smell the smoke from an unlit fire."
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