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Bad Dirt: v. 2: Wyoming Stories (Wyoming Stories S.) (Paperback)

by Annie Proulx (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd (6 Jun 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007198876
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007198870
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 30,180 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Proulx writes in wonderful stews, everything thrown in together!the stories demand a second reading.' Daily Telegraph 'Her keen eye for idiosyncrasy ensures her continuing reputation as one of the shrewdest chroniclers of contemporary America.' David Robson, Sunday Telegraph 'Vivid and evocative!as [the stories] gather force, you find yourself being drawn in to their momentum.' Financial Times 'Proulx['s]!stories' sour sometimes brutal folksiness gains a singular resonance from the fine, sinewy prose in which they are rendered.' The Times 'Packed with grittily persuasive detail, they feel both modern and as timeless as the Wyoming plains.' Marie Claire 'Performs inspired imaginative feats.' Alex Clark, Sunday Times Praise for Close Range: 'A stunning collection of eleven tales about the hard lives of the ranchers, cowpokes and country wives who struggle to survive in an unforgiving environment. Written in a wonderfully flexible style that can be both spare and extravagant, her book has been hailed by American critics as a masterpiece.' Daily Telegraph 'Like a mystic seeing the transfigured universe, she recreates the beauty of ordinary things.' Independent on Sunday 'The detail is meticulous, the prose poetic and Proulx's fiction teems with life. Above all, her stories engage the heart. Magical.' Tatler 'Proulx's style, compressed, elastic, hard-hitting, is inimitable: close to poetry but never self-indulgent. This is writing to be savoured.' Sunday Telegraph 'These are tales we can almost feel in our bones.' Sunday Times 'As lean, confident and exact as a stylist, and as good a storyteller, as you could hope for. Buy this book.' Observer 'Individually, these 11 tales have a tautness and an urgency that are never less than exhilarating. Collectively, they encapsulate an entire, unremittingly bleak world. To find the pulse of humanity in such desperate lives betokens a writer of genius.' Saturday Telegraph

David Robson, Sunday Telegraph

'Her keen eye for idiosyncrasy ensures her continuing reputation as one of the shrewdest chroniclers of contemporary America.'

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read, 22 Sep 2005
Annie Proloux at her masterful best. It's very hard to explain why her books are so brilliant. Engaging stories about Wyoming concentrating on the simple life but written with a simplicity and clarity that must be envied by most modern authors. I always find the subject matter engaging but to be honest I'd read a telephone directory if I knew she'd written it.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I could read her for ever, 16 Dec 2005
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Sublime! Proulx at her best. She’s so good at presenting the odd, the desolate, the eccentric, the vicious, even the beautiful. Her language delights in its freshness, creative intensity and wry irony. I could read her for ever.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful as ever, 10 Aug 2007
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Though this group of stories seemed to focus on losers and ratbags more than some of the others...kind of felt like I wanted to have a shower after I finished it. Still, brilliant.
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