Word: woman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Christine Schomer: A couple weeks ago when I was in a despairing mood, I was taking the train from New York City and the woman sitting next to me saw my letterhead from the festival. She said "Are you from the Newport Film Festival," and I said, "Yes." She said "I highly recommend it to you," and wrote me a check for $200 on the spot. It was a very nice moment...
...Good" because of his charity work in his native Mexico) finds himself cripplingly alone and seeks to escape the city that is suddenly distasteful to him. A recent widower, he misreads his young lunch date's interest, and within an hour he is mentally married to a woman he had previously hardly remembered. This would be the perfect antidote to his distressing solitude: "she could brighten my life, he thinks, and lighten my home, all those rooms with their splendid views that seem to have darkened," and he wonders about what redecoration schemes she will choose. She is engaged, however...
...Good" because of his charity work in his native Mexico) finds himself cripplingly alone and seeks to escape the city that is suddenly distasteful to him. A recent widower, he misreads his young lunch date's interest, and within an hour he is mentally married to a woman he had previously hardly remembered. This would be the perfect antidote to his distressing solitude: "she could brighten my life, he thinks, and lighten my home, all those rooms with their splendid views that seem to have darkened," and he wonders about what redecoration schemes she will choose. She is engaged, however...
...behavior. She now lives in Wyoming, and Close Range is a collection which grows out of what Proulx understands as the essential spirit of Wyoming: almost no story in this collection goes by without murder or sudden violence, without rape or incest or (nearly always) adultery, Without man or woman being broken by the isolation and the struggle of survival. The most deeply troubling and perhaps the best of the stories in the new collection, "People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water," tells of the way a family of cow-boy brothers viciously castrate a severely crippled...
...behavior. She now lives in Wyoming, and Close Range is a collection which grows out of what Proulx understands as the essential spirit of Wyoming: almost no story in this collection goes by without murder or sudden violence, without rape or incest or (nearly always) adultery, without man or woman being broken by the isolation and the struggle of survival. The most deeply troubling and perhaps the best of the stories in the new collection, "People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water," tells of the way a family of cowboy brothers viciously castrate a severely crippled man: Proulx...