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Illustrated with watercolors, CLOSE RANGE collects eleven stories, all set in the harsh Wyoming landscape, about characters whose desperate lives illuminate a range of human e...Read more
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Brokeback Mountain/Close Range
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Annie Proulx has a special gift that few authors have, that is the ability to live in the characters. I love her ability to bring you in, as though you were actually there, y...Read more
CLOSE RANGE, WYOMING STORIES, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
TOTALLY AWESOME COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES. BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG. ANNIE PROULX HAS A REAL TALENT FOR STORYTELLING. THIS BOOK IS VERY INTERESTIN...Read more
Close Range: Wyoming Stories by E. Annie Proulx (1999, Hardcover)
Author: E. Annie ProulxPublisher: ScribnerLanguage: English
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Illustrated with watercolors, CLOSE RANGE collects eleven stories, all set in the harsh Wyoming landscape, about characters whose desperate lives illuminate a range of human experience that is full of farce, tragedy, and grit. The book includes the novella "Brokeback Mountain," the star-crossed cowboy romance adapted into a critically acclaimed 2005 film starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.
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A new collection of award-winning short fiction by the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofThe Shipping News includes "Brokeback Mountain," "The Mud Below," and "The Half Skinned Steer," selected by John Updike as one of the best stories of the century. 75,000 first printing.
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"Of the eleven tales that make up CLOSE RANGE...seven or eight are merely very good, and at least three are off the scale....Proulx has something in common [with Willa Cather], not least her raptness before a high-plains dawn...and a vatic sense--the staple of pastoral--that people are bound by their early memories; that there is no migration without the fugitive promise of homecoming."
Times Literary Supplement - Will Eaves (06/11/1999)
"Everything in her work attests to long practice of keen observation, a hoarding of images and facts, and the painstaking perfection of a craft which allows her to address the most pungent and raw subject matter in a style remarkable not just for vigor but for delicacy and finesse....The best [of these stories] carry with them the present and the past of America, enfolded like twins in the womb."
New York Review of Books - Hilary Mantel (05/11/2000)
Illustrated with watercolors, CLOSE RANGE collects eleven stories, all set in the harsh Wyoming landscape, about characters whose desperate lives illuminate a range of human experience that is full of farce, tragedy, and grit. The book includes the novella "Brokeback Mountain," the star-crossed cowboy romance adapted into a critically acclaimed 2005 film starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.
| Key Details | |
| Author: | E. Annie Proulx |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Scribner |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| ISBN-10: | 0684852217 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780684852218 |
| Size | |
| Length: | 283 pages |
| Thickness: | 1.2 in |
| Weight: | 19.2 oz |
Publisher's Note
A new collection of award-winning short fiction by the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
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Times Literary Supplement - Will Eaves (06/11/1999)
New York Review of Books - Hilary Mantel (05/11/2000)
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Brokeback Mountain/Close Range
Created: 02/02/07
) Annie Proulx has a special gift that few authors have, that is the ability to live in the characters. I love her ability to bring you in, as though you were actually there, you experience what she is writing about. After I saw B B M, and I was completely overcome with emotions, being that I am, in many ways one of the characters she wrote about. I read the story, then acquired the Close Range, again blown away by her ability to draw you in. Nothing has captured my attention like this, since I read Front Runner, by Patricia Nell Warren, years ago. Thankyou Annie Proulx, for this wonderful story about two (2) men who fall in love. My partner and I, again, in many ways are these two (2) men. We also happen to be cowboys.
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Created: 12/02/06
TOTALLY AWESOME COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES. BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG. ANNIE PROULX HAS A REAL TALENT FOR STORYTELLING. THIS BOOK IS VERY INTERESTING AND AN EASY READ. BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN IS A STORY FOR THE AGES....HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful.
Plays upon examination of raw lives.
Created: 02/04/11
) Proulx writes like you wish you could. She creates folks who are more real than you are and situations that force unblinking reexamination of what makes people tough or tender, moral or not. Living on margins and low expectations.
Read her and adjust your forced fantasies about noble mankind. Life is very hard outside of suburban America. Cruel and rarely fair.
Read her and adjust your forced fantasies about noble mankind. Life is very hard outside of suburban America. Cruel and rarely fair.
Close Range by Annie Proulx (1999)
Created: 08/10/05
) Brokeback Mountain has a tearjerker ending, And I'm straight. Proving that love is a force of nature,
2 lonely cowboys hook- sheep herding. Good poignant stuff
2 lonely cowboys hook- sheep herding. Good poignant stuff
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.
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