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Western Lit: ‘Monument Road’ Is a Clean, Utilitarian Novel About the Modern Western Experience

by Kathleen Yale July 5th, 2014December 16th, 2020

Rancher Leonard Self is the type of elderly man who keeps “his shades drawn, his talk necessary, his actions to the problem at hand.” In the wake of the death of his wife, Inetta, he’s been winnowing his ranch goods, his farmhouse, his life itself, succumbing to a darkening that “was not pain but bone-deep […]

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