Genre: Book/Stories
Grade: B+
Notable People: Annie Proulx
Title: Bad Dirt
Review: this is the second of Proulx’ Wyoming story series and pretty comparable to the first one. Dry humor, caricatures of western archetypes, lushly described vistas abound….with a set of recurring characters, mostly set in the town of Elk Tooth, Wyoming….from whence you have to drive 40 miles to get a quart of milk, but can readily have a boilermaker at any of three bars in town. Though I recognize the superior writing quality and the serous thinking of these sets of stories, they frankly begin to bore me a bit after three or four. I’ll probably plow through the subsequent two in the series, but only because I’m a stubborn reader. I prefer her three outstanding novels.