Ebook {Epub PDF} Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston

 · Cowboys Are My Weakness is a refreshing and realistic look at men and women – together and apart. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY FEB 1, A gifted storyteller and a fine writer, Houston brings insight and an original perspective to the heavily trafficked gender divide in her short-story collection, which was a two-week PW bestseller in cloth/5(29).  · Complete summary of Pam Houston's Cowboys Are My Weakness. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Cowboys Are My Weakness.  · It's not until ``Cowboys Are My Weakness'' that the female voices of these stories begin to show some starch. In that story, a woman first discovers the difference between real and ersatz cowboys, then figures out that neither variety is ever going to provide ``the impossible love of a .

Full Title: Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories Author: Pam Houston Publisher: W. W. Norton Company () Number of Pages: How long it took me to read: 5 days Where I bought this book: I purchased it during the author's book reading. When she read excerpts from her forthcoming novel, I found myself at times laughing, and at other times, feeling the emotional dilemma of her character. In Pam Houston's critically acclaimed collection of strong, shrewd, and very funny 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. "I've always had this thing for cowboys, maybe because I was born in New Jersey," says the narrator in the collection's title story. Pam Houston. Photo by Mike Blakeman. Pam Houston's collection of short stories Cowboys Are My Weakness was a surprise hit, with its sharp, funny, painful stories of female protagonists navigating wild places and rough relationships. Houston, then 31 years old, took the modest advance from that book and impulsively bought a acre ranch in the Colorado Rockies.

Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories (Norton Paperback) - Kindle edition by Houston, Pam. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories (Norton Paperback). "Exhilarating, like a swift ride through river rapids with a spunky, sexy gal handling the oars."#;Washington Post Book World In Pam Houston's critically acclaimed collection of strong, shrewd, and very funny stories, we meet smart women who are looking for the love of a good man, and men who a. “Brilliant. [Houston] takes women into grand spaces, both emotional and physical, and isolates them until there’s nothing left to do but sit down and take a hard look at one’s soul.” — Los Angeles Times, Cowboys Are My Weakness, Stories, Pam Houston,