Close Range : Wyoming Stories

English

ISBN: 0684852217

EAN: 9780684852218

Category: Fiction / Short Stories (single author)

Publisher: Scribner

Release Date: 05/31/1999

Synopsis: Annie Proulxs 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 riders 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 brothers funeral, and dies a mile from home. In Brokeback Mountain, the difficult affair between two cowboys survives everything but the worlds violent 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 Wyomings 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 inClose Rangehave appeared inThe New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harpers,andGQ.They have been selected for theO. Henry Stories 1998andThe Best American Short Stories of the Centuryand 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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Close Range : Wyoming Stories

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.1 inches

Width: 6.12 inches

Length: 9.25 inches

Weight: 18.87 oz

Pages: 288