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    <body><![CDATA[Proulx is again riveting and brutal. This collection of stories includes some of the human species most terrible realities, including incest and insanity. It also includes the early shapings of her intensely-crafted writing style, which I continue to adore. <br/><br/>The themes include rural life ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54311317">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Collection of short stories depicting sub-human creatures brought to light by the writer's deft overturning of spongy, moss-covered outcroppings to reveal a netherworld of detritus and despair.  (Okay--some of these characters have redeeming qualities, but on the whole they live on the underside of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43571678">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This should be subtitled &quot;Northeastern Rednecks on Parade&quot;! :)  I thought this kind of people only came from the South!  She sure knows how to create memorable dysfunctional characters.<br/>_________________________________________<br/><br/>These stories take place in rural Vermont amon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30390397">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[2nd story in the book: <em>Stone City</em><br/>So who is more evil, the Stone family of inbreeders and murders or the townsfolk that tar and feather the entire clan? This story causes me to remember the movie <em>Deliverance</em>. When I first saw the movie many years ago at a younger age, I thought the mountain peo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15256932">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful collection. Reminds me of a shorter, tighter, Alice Munro, except more...optimistic? Not to say that there's many &quot;happy&quot; endings, but the characters seem more content with their simple lives, exemplified by the title story, which is definitely my favorite out of the collection....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56796900">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Proulx is fucking brilliant. The first book I read by her was Shipping News and I was blown away at how she, like ee cummings used punctuation or the lack thereof to make words hang like actual things.<br/><br/>I like how well she knows her characters, she is describing a land, a culture, a way of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11601701">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The title story is masterful - the piece of writing from Annie Proulx that I've found satisfying from beginning to end.  I started to read the rest of the collection, but had to stop because they are so unrelentingly grim.  <br/><br/>She's an amazingly precise writer - the truth and power of her s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36903244">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reminds me of how much I love the short story form.  Amazing images.  Proulx's clarity of insight and grasp of people living close to the land - mostly (maybe all?) set in the granite landscape of the northeast.  Hard, glittering writing from a master.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Proulx writes in such a beautiful, understated voice. She leaves us wondering at times, explains perfectly at others, but somehow always knows just what each situation requires.<br/><br/>As I read each of her novels or short story collections, I feel sad that are so few new ones left to read. I wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77242380">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Her early work. For someone of her talents, it's good but not great.<br/>For her stories, read &quot;Close Range&quot; instead.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[She writes beautifully, but I think the themes of the stories were not quite up my alley - hunting, fishing, city folk vs. country folk, etc.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent. I'm reading Annie Proulx to learn more about story construction and colorful language.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this was SO good. i want to give it 4 1/2 stars. i wish that were possible. i'm obsessed with the art of the short story lately. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazingly graphic. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book of short stories is a great example of why Proulx has become a favorite author.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Whew!  Proulx is a STUNNING writer.  I am blown away.  I'm keeping this book around because she inspires me in so many ways... Right now, I'm thinking a lot about the way she describes people in such original ways knowing just the right thing to pull out so you KNOW that person.  What a writer!  Gre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10038860">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i remember stories in this book that kind of blew my head open. it got me very ecstatic about annie proulx and reading more of her. then i started Shipping News and couldn't get past the first 5 pp. i was disullusioned. i recently got a new collection of hers that i'm hoping will bring her back in t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12074554">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a classic of embittered naturalism.  portrays the naive cityfolk who move to the country and the entrenched locals who have always been stuck there in the same sad, hopeless light.  hard, rough-edged stories about pathetic characters on both sides of this modern rural divide.  a beautiful little boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27048142">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Proulx's gritty characters, whose flaws lead them like intimate dance partners, and the landscape around them captivated me. Reading these stories made me feel as though I were watching something that I shouldn't be. Intimate, raw, and unflinching, not to mention intriguing.]]></body>
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