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Cowboys Are My Weakness Pam Houston (University of California at Davis)

Cowboys Are My Weakness By Pam Houston (University of California at Davis)

Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston (University of California at Davis)

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Brilliant.... [Houston] takes women into grand spaces, both emotional and physical, and isolates them until there's nothing left to do but sit down and take a hard look at one's soul. -Los Angeles Times

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Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories by Pam Houston (University of California at Davis)

In Pam Houston's best-selling story collection, we meet smart women who are looking for the love of a good man, and men who are wild and hard to pin down. Our heroines are part daredevil, part philosopher, all acute observers of the nuances of modern romance. Cowboys Are My Weakness is a shrewd and intoxicating look at men and women-together and apart.

Cowboys Are My Weakness Reviews

Exhilarating, like a swift ride through river rapids. -- Washington Post Book World
Illuminated by a sturdy sense of humor and a gift for poetic description. -- The New Yorker
[Houston's] prose [is] sharp and clean and full of sentences worth underlining. -- New York Times Book Review
In Pam Houston's wonderful stories, sex and hunting are somehow confused, as are humans and animals. People wear skins, the animals speak, and those guys-the ones we all thought were extinct, the ones who defined what a man was-turn up, very much alive, and up to their usual tricks. Houston's women know they should know better, but they don't, and the result is a beautiful collection about sexual politics, old and new. -- Charles Baxter
A powerhouse.... Houston's women are strong and free-spirited-their encounters with their moosehunting, whitewater-rafting, wilderness-loving lovers are more comic than tragic, and always entertaining. -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Houston is a writer of talent and promise. -- Newsday
A brilliant collection of stories... that strike at the heart and end up revealing much about the complex state of relations between men and women. -- Judith Freeman - Los Angeles Times
Many of these short gems owe their entire core to the west, which, more a character than a setting, allows subtle interplay to occur between Houston's strong, modern women and the prairie or rangeland they temporarily inhabit. -- Milwaukee Journal
Beautifully written and funny. -- Cleveland Plain Dealer
These are adventure stories that would make Hemingway jealous. -- Arizona Republic

About Pam Houston (University of California at Davis)

Pam Houston is the prize-winning author of Contents May Have Shifted, among other books. She is professor of English at the University of California-Davis and lives on a ranch at 9,000 feet in Colorado near the headwaters of the Rio Grande.

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CIN0393356876VG
9780393356878
0393356876
Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories by Pam Houston (University of California at Davis)
Pam Houston (University of California at Davis)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
WW Norton & Co
2019-01-29
192
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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