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Close Range: Wyoming Stories Paperback - 2000

by Annie Proulx

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From one of the great writers of our time comes a collection of award-winning stories about loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love. Her masterful language and vast love of the West are evident in these stunning portraits which have appeared in "The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly" and "Harper's."

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Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Barkskins, showcases her "gritty and gleaming" (The New York Times Book Review) writing in Close Range, one of the most celebrated story collections of all time--includes "Brokeback Mountain."Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love. In "The Mud Below," a rodeo rider's obsession marks the deepening fissures between his family life and self-imposed isolation. In "The Half-Skinned Steer," an elderly fool drives west to the ranch he grew up on for his brother's funeral, and dies a mile from home. In the iconic story "Brokeback Mountain," the difficult affair between two cowboys survives everything but the world's intolerance. These are stories of desperation, hard times, and unlikely elation, set in a landscape both brutal and magnificent. Enlivened by folk tales, flights of fancy, and details of ranch and rural work, they juxtapose Wyoming's traditional character and attitudes--confrontation of tough problems, prejudice, persistence in the face of difficulty--with the more benign values of the new west. Stories in Close Range have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's, and GQ. They have been selected for the O. Henry Stories 1998, The Best American Short Stories of the Century, and A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker and have won the National Magazine Award for Fiction. This is work by an author writing at the peak of her craft.

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  • Title Close Range: Wyoming Stories
  • Author Annie Proulx
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Later Printing
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Scribner Book Company, New York
  • Publication date 2000-02-10
  • Features Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780684852225 / 0684852225
  • Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.92 x 5.42 x 0.66 in (20.12 x 13.77 x 1.68 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: Wyoming
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Frontier and pioneer life - Wyoming, Ranch life - Wyoming
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98056066
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Entertainment Weekly, 02/04/2000, Page 65
  • New York Review of Books, 10/23/2008, Page 41
  • New York Times, 02/13/2000, Page 32
  • Outside, 10/01/2008, Page 38

About the author

Annie Proulx is the author of eleven books, including the novels The Shipping News, Accordion Crimes, and Barkskins, and the story collection Close Range. Her many honors include a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, a PEN/Faulkner Award, and two O. Henry prizes. Her story "Brokeback Mountain," which originally appeared in The New Yorker, was made into an Academy Award-winning film. She lives in Vermont.
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