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The New Yorker has published ANOTHER new Annie Proulx story ***SPOILERS***
BelAir:
I read the new story end of last week.
I forgot how absolutely devastating her writing can be. I am glad the cat survived her tale, lol!
Does anyone think any parts of the story were over the top? (I don't necessarily think so, but I think you could possibly make the argument.)
Front-Ranger:
Certainly the part where the woman heard the coyotes howling and "she knew what they were doing."
But I've been to Wyoming and it is a very intense place and somewhat "over the top" as you say. So it fits with the location.
She is certainly very low-key about how her characters end up. I had to go back and read again to figure out what happened to Archie the young cowboy.
BelAir:
--- Quote from: Kd5000 on May 05, 2008, 07:50:22 pm ---So disappointed. I stopped by Barnes and Noble looking for this New Yorker and they already have the one out for 5/12. It's the 5th today. I guess I will have to check at the library to see if they got "older" issues.
Does this story sound like it could be turned into a film? Just curious. I know Proulx isn't the type that writes so her stories can be easily turned into films.
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well, yeah, I think it probably could be a film.... might look like a lot of harrowing melodrama on screen though.
at its simplest, it is a basic western tale of misfortune. (well, seems sacreligious to use the words simple and basic to relate to a. proulx. simple and basic don't equal bad though.)
Jeff Wrangler:
The names Annie Proulx comes up with never cease to amaze and amuse me: "Queeda Dorgan." ??? :laugh:
Shakesthecoffecan:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on May 21, 2008, 12:47:52 pm ---I know and agree with what you're saying but there are other times when Proulx takes the character's POV. I'm thinking particularly of the time when Ennis was seducing Alma (or trying to distract her from her line of thought) and the line finishes up, "all the way to the North Pole or the Equator, depending on which way you thought you were sailing" Now that is something that comes from the character's POV, not the narrator's LOL!!
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Yeah she really exposes their POV as a enement in the telling of the story.
That line about the north pole and the equator was so obtuse I really had to think about it a long time. It was so personal that it was alien to me. An example, I think, of Jack and Ennis becoming very real to her.
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