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Review title: Tripping Over Words
Product review: Proulx is the Fellini of novelists and short story writers. Her use of language (her starnge and sometimes invented vocabulary, her colloquial syntax), her curious characters and barren locales, all sugget something of the Italian master of surrealsim and desperation. Proulx's characters inhabit a nether world of lost hopes and fragmented dreams, of broken families and broken souls. At the end of a Proulx story, one never says 'aha!', but rather 'huh?' She tests her readers at every turn and assumes we are up for the game. While I found myself bumping against some of the rocky outcroppings of her prose, there were also times when I was subsumed by her magic and was taken for a ride to a planet resembling Earth. All that is missing is love. Perhaps that makes Proulx more a realist than anything else.
