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Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3.(Brief article)(Book review)
* Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 Annie Proulx. Scribner, $25 (240p) ISBN 978-14165-7166-7
The steely Proulx (The Shipping News, etc.) returns with another astonishing series of hardscrabble lives lived in the sparse, inhospitable West, where one mistake can put you on a long-winding trail to disaster. "Family Man" is set in the Mellowhorn Home for old cowboys and aging ranch widows, where resident curmudgeon Ray Forkenbrock shares memories of his father with his granddaughter and an eavesdropping caretaker; the secret he reveals gives new meaning to the word "relative." In two demonically clever riffs on human weakness, "I've Always Loved This …
