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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"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." --<em>Los Angeles Times</em><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In Pam Houston's best-selling story collection, 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. <em>Cowboys Are My Weakness</em> is a shrewd and intoxicating look at men and women--together and apart.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[Houston's] prose [is] sharp and clean and full of sentences worth underlining.-- "New York Times Book Review"<br><br>A brilliant collection of stories... that strike at the heart and end up revealing much about the complex state of relations between men and women.--Judith Freeman "Los Angeles Times"<br><br>A powerhouse.... Houston's women are strong and free-spirited--their encounters with their moosehunting, whitewater-rafting, wilderness-loving lovers are more comic than tragic, and always entertaining.-- "St. Louis Post-Dispatch"<br><br>Beautifully written and funny.-- "Cleveland Plain Dealer"<br><br>Exhilarating, like a swift ride through river rapids.-- "Washington Post Book World"<br><br>Houston is a writer of talent and promise.-- "Newsday"<br><br>Illuminated by a sturdy sense of humor and a gift for poetic description.-- "The New Yorker"<br><br>Many of these short gems owe their entire core to the west, which, more a character than a setting, allows subtle interplay to occur between Houston's strong, modern women and the prairie or rangeland they temporarily inhabit.-- "Milwaukee Journal"<br><br>These are adventure stories that would make Hemingway jealous.-- "Arizona Republic"<br><br>In Pam Houston's wonderful stories, sex and hunting are somehow confused, as are humans and animals. People wear skins, the animals speak, and those guys--the ones we all thought were extinct, the ones who defined what a man was--turn up, very much alive, and up to their usual tricks. Houston's women know they should know better, but they don't, and the result is a beautiful collection about sexual politics, old and new.--Charles Baxter<br>

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