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Annie Proulx's memoir.
Jeff Wrangler:
I like this characterization of Annie's style:
--- Quote ---Reading Ms. Proulx’s prose is like bouncing along rutted country roads in a pickup truck with no shock absorbers.
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However, I like the style. The reviewer clearly does not:
--- Quote ---I’m partial to her early work, including the story collection “Heart Songs and Other Stories” (1988) and the novel “Postcards” (1992), written before her signature style had begun to calcify and cloy.
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Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 07, 2011, 09:56:39 am ---I guess she finally did. Hasn't she left Wyoming for Arizona? Or is it New Mexico?
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My understanding is that she lives in New Mexico during the winter. She still owns the house in Wyoming and may come back to it in the summer.
Great review! Please thank Larry for us and tell him we miss him. I am even more interested in reading the book now that I know that it's not just about the real estate. I'm more interested in reading Annie's "lists" of wildflowers and animals, as well as her characterizations about people, than I am in hearing about contractor and construction snafus.
Marge_Innavera:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 07, 2011, 09:56:39 am ---While I admit I never gave it a thought until I read the above review, I can well imagine that working as a contractor for Annie Proulx would be a thankless, even "Sisyphean," task. I can well imagine that someone as particular about her writing as Annie is would drive a contractor crazy.
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Don't know about contractors, but....
As a person whose work history includes waitressing, I can about guess what it would be like to wait on a person who's regularly described as "cantankerous." Or even "feisty." ;)
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Marge_Innavera on January 07, 2011, 11:59:41 am ---Don't know about contractors, but....
As a person whose work history includes waitressing, I can about guess what it would be like to wait on a person who's regularly described as "cantankerous." Or even "feisty." ;)
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Behind her back, her contractors probably said "pain in the ass." ;D
Meryl:
--- Quote from: shakesthecoffeecan on January 07, 2011, 12:00:20 am ---Admirers of her fiction will find much of this memoir to be not uninteresting.
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I'm sure of that.
--- Quote ---Few writers can talk about the perks of their success without sounding either defensive or deplorable. Ms. Proulx is not among those few. “Bird Cloud” has too many precious lines like, “I wanted interesting pieces of light,” and: “Books are very important to me. I wish I could think of them as some publishers do — as ‘product’ — but I can’t.”
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I'm sure these lines are precious--to Annie--rather than in the way the reviewer notes.
--- Quote ---The angel on my right shoulder tells me I’m being hard on “Bird Cloud.”
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I think my Dad the angel was right. ;)
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