num_pages: 192
description: Ive always had this thing for cowboys maybe because I was born in New Jersey says the narrator in this collections title story. But a real cowboy is hard to find these days even in the West.In Pam Houstons bright edgy and ruefully self- aware (Boston Globe) collection of stories 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.[Houston] takes women into grand spaces both emotional and physical and isolates them until theres nothing left to do but sit down and take a hard look at ones soul (Los Angeles Times). Cowboys Are My Weakness is an exhilarating (Washington Post) and realistic look at men and women together and apart.
language: English
title: Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company