Clare’s Reviews > Close Range: Wyoming Stories > Status Update

unrelentingly grim, this. men who believe firmly that life is misery and hard, thankless grind and nothing more. They've got a weirdly uneasy truce with this totally unforgiving environment that reminds me of a big, open-plan Overlook Hotel. in every story life starts out hard and then gets worse and worse, but in increasingly unusual ways, until we just stop and leave the characters to their misfortune. i like it.