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A review by larrys
Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 by Annie Proulx
5.0
In line with most other readers, my least favourite stories were the ones set in Elk Tooth but the quality of the rest more than made up for that. The serious stories were the ones that made me laugh out loud.
If you don’t share Proulx’s dark sense of humour this probably won’t be your favourite collection of hers.
But I do share this sense of humour, and also the basic worldview—the geographical determinism, as it’s often called. Annie Proulx favours no one, but shows an in depth understanding of how small communities tend to work.
I feel like I just visited Wyoming, without actually having to go.
I analysed my favourites from this collection elsewhere:
If you don’t share Proulx’s dark sense of humour this probably won’t be your favourite collection of hers.
But I do share this sense of humour, and also the basic worldview—the geographical determinism, as it’s often called. Annie Proulx favours no one, but shows an in depth understanding of how small communities tend to work.
I feel like I just visited Wyoming, without actually having to go.
I analysed my favourites from this collection elsewhere:
The Hellhole
The Indian Wars Refought
The Trickle Down Effect
What Kind of Furniture Would Jesus Pick?
The Old Badger Game
Man Crawling Out Of Trees
The Contest
The Wamsutter Wolf
Summer of the Hot Tubs
Dump Junk
Florida Rental