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Who is a fan of Annie Proulx?
Katie77:
I started this after a little discussion on another thread, where one of our users said she had gone to see Annie Proulx....and Annie said she is "trying to distance herself from Brokeback Mountain now".....
Firstly, I cannot understand anyone wanting to distance themselves from such a beautiful story, and secondly, i believe, that if it wasnt for Brokeback, she would not be as popular a personality, as she has become....
So I would like to know, who heard of her before Brokeback, and who is still a fan of hers for any other works.....so the question is....
Are you a fan of Annie Proulx only because she wrote Brokeback Mountain?
1.Yes
2.No
3.Became a fan after reading Brokeback, but like her other works as well
4.Became a fan, before she wrote Brokeback
Katie77:
I'm bloody useless.....i dont think i set that poll up properly, cause I dont know how to.....can someone fix it for me......please....
Front-Ranger:
Okay, I will be glad to set this up for you...
Front-Ranger:
This is Katie77's poll. Katie, you just need to select "Create New Poll" rather than "Create New Topic." Take it away, Katie!!
Front-Ranger:
I read one of her earliest works, Postcards, while recovering from surgery back in 1996. It is a haunting book, and quite depressing, since it is all about a farm family during the Depression. I was strangely hooked by her ultra-realistic way of portraying rural people, almost as if she was daring you to read the whole book. If I hadn't been stuck in bed, I probably wouldn't have finished it. But I'm so glad I did. I loved the two characters Loyal Blood, the protagonist, and his mother. And I can see the parallels to BBM.
I haven't finished The Shipping News, but I have read other short stories of Proulx's and of course I read BBM when it first came out in The New Yorker.
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