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Review title: Cowboys Rock!
Product review: This is a tremendous collection of stories. The prose is magnificent; Proulx continuously finds new ways to say common things (my favorite: "his mouth seems to have been cut with a single chisel blow into easy flesh"). What's more, as amazing as the prose is, Proulx is just as concerned with story (a concern too often lost among contemporary writers); these stories rock with happening! Standouts: "Brokeback Mountain" (a frank glance into doomed cowboy love); "People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Ice Water" (poetic in its depiction of the brutality of life); "55 Miles to the Gas Pump" (probably the shortest serial killer story ever told). Proulx's stories deal with the harshness that is contemporary life -- but always with an edge of humor, a touch of the whimsical (a sort of Ray Carver in Big Country). All are excellent, deserving of your reading list.
