Nov 17, 2009
Cowboys Are My Weakness | Cowboys Are My Weakness
At a glance:
- Author: Pam Houston
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Plot: Psychological, regional
- Time of Work: The early 1990's
- Setting: Montana
- Principal Characters: The narrator, Homer, Monte, David
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Traveling or travelers, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Rural or country life, West, U.S., Fantasy, Idealism, Single people, 1990’s, Ranches, ranchers, or ranching, Cowboys or cowgirls, Happiness, Dating, Montana
- Locales: Montana
The Story
An unnamed female narrator begins her story with a description of her romanticized picture
of an ideal relationship, in which a woman has just kissed her bearded husband good-bye on their
ranch. The narrator wishes she could paint the picture to see if she is the woman in the
painting.
She has moved west from New Jersey and now lives in Colorado. She has always been
attracted to cowboys and is involved with an emotionally distant wildlife specialist named
Homer. Every year, Homer spends five weeks studying a herd of deer on a ranch in Montana, and
this year the...
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