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   “They never talked about the sex, let it happen, at first only in the tent at
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ranch hands in rural Wyoming, a world of isolation, machismo, and forbidden
attachments. Since then, in her novels and her stories, Proulx has explored some
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A RESOLUTE MAN

“Was it not his responsibility to save the woman who had saved him?”


TITS-UP IN A DITCH

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yourself. They take women.’ ”


BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

“They never talked about the sex, let it happen, at first only in the tent at
night, then in the full daylight.”
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