<p>‘Ms. Proulx writes with all the brutal beauty of one of her Wyoming snowstorms’, <em>The Wall Street Journal</em></p>
<p>‘A stunning collection of eleven tales about the hard lives of the ranchers, cowpokes and country wives who struggle to survive in an unforgiving environment. Written in a wonderfully flexible style that can be both spare and extravagant, her book has been hailed by American critics as a masterpiece.’ <em>Daily Telegraph</em></p>
<p>‘Like a mystic seeing the transfigured universe, she recreates the beauty of ordinary things.’ <em>Independent on Sunday</em></p>
<p>‘The detail is meticulous, the prose poetic and Proulx's fiction teems with life. Above all, her stories engage the heart. Magical.’ <em>Tatler</em></p>
<p>‘Proulx's style, compressed, elastic, hard-hitting, is inimitable: close to poetry but never self-indulgent. This is writing to be savoured.’ <em>Sunday Telegraph</em></p>
<p>‘These are tales we can almost feel in our bones.’ <em>Sunday Times</em></p>
<p>‘Individually, these 11 tales have a tautness and an urgency that are never less than exhilarating. Collectively, they encapsulate an entire, unremittingly bleak world. To find the pulse of humanity in such desperate lives betokens a writer of genius.’ <em>Saturday Telegraph</em></p>