怀俄明,那是怎样的一片土地,用“大草原之地”或者“高山与深谷相间之地”来形容都嫌太苍白了,或许该用安妮·普鲁的语言来叙说:粗砺而不失柔情,简洁而满含辛酸。安妮·普鲁无意张扬她对怀俄明的爱,一整本《近距离:怀俄明故事》,始终是一种不急不徐克制的笔调——貌似无情,却恰恰透露了 Wyoming, what kind of land it is, that it is too pale to describe it as “the land of the prairie” or “the land between the mountains and the valleys”, perhaps to describe it in the language of Anne Proud: Ruth without loss of tenderness, concise and full of bitterness. Annie Prouk had no intention of applauding her love of Wyoming, and the whole “Close: The Story of Wyoming” was always an uninhibited style of writing - seemingly heartless but revealing