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ISBN
0684852217
Book Title
Close Range : Wyoming Stories
Item Length
9.2 in
Publisher
Scribner
Publication Year
1999
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1 in
Author
Annie Proulx
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Classics, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
Item Width
6.1 in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes one of the most celebrated short story collections of our time. 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 "Brokeback Mountain," the difficult affair between two cowboys survives everything but the world's 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 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 Monthly, Harper's, and GQ. They have been selected for the O. Henry Stories 1998 and The Best American Short Stories of the Century 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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Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
0684852217
ISBN-13
9780684852218
eBay Product ID (ePID)
278024

Product Key Features

Book Title
Close Range : Wyoming Stories
Author
Annie Proulx
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Classics, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
Publication Year
1999
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
288 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ps3566.R697c58 1999
Reviews
The New York Times Powerful...Read [the stories] for their absolute authenticity and their language, a wry poetry of loneliness and pain., Jill Vejnoska Atlanta Journal-Constitution Annie Proulx isn't easy. Little she writes about smacks of the familiar. Where so many successful authors strive to create worlds that are instantly, even comfortably, recognizable to readers, Proulx goes where few others would. It isn't easy, but Close Range is definitely worth it., Richard Eder The New York Times Book Review Geography, splendid and terrible, is a tutelary deity to the characters in Close Range. Their lives are futile uphill struggles conducted as a downhill, out-of-control tearaway. Proulx writes of them in a prose that is violent and impacted and mastered just at the point where, having gone all the way to the edge, it is about to go over., Carolyn See The Washington Post Book World It's the prose, as much as the inventiveness of the stories here, that shines and shines. Every single sentence surprises and delights and just bowls you over., Anna Mundow New York Daily News Close Range is not one long dirge simply played in eleven different keys. Each story presents a subtle change of mood and each character inhabits a particular world, a world that Proulx constructs with graceful, devastating sentences., The Boston Globe Few writers feel equally at home in the novel and the short story...[these stories] are tough as flint and on occasion breathtaking; together they stand with Proulx's best work., Outside magazine A major achievement in American fiction -- a gorgeous, deeply affecting adventure in stylistic plenitude, prose clarity, and hearts laid bare., Michael Upchurch The Seattle Times Book Review Her characters -- stoical, hardheaded, yet willing to be ravaged by the closest available passion whenever the chance presents itself -- crackle and cavort on the page. Served up a full array of life's wayward ecstasies and gut-twisting losses, they resign themselves, in true Proulx fashion, to the damage that loss and ecstasy do....Amen to that, and amen to this book., People As she rips away our romantic notions of the West, Proulx asks how capable any of us are of outrunning our origins. Her fatalistic answer, in these stories, adds up to some breathtaking reading., Michael Knight The Wall Street Journal Ms. Proulx writes with all the brutal beauty of one of her Wyoming snowstorms.
Copyright Date
1999
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
98-056066
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Dewey Edition
21

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  • by 568louis
    Feb 06, 2007

    Brokeback Mountain/Close Range

    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.

  • by svevo895
    Mar 25, 2022

    good writing, good story telling.

    well crafted tales

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: thrift.books

  • by TE92nNmSTya@Deleted
    Apr 02, 2011

    Plays upon examination of raw lives.

    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.

  • by maryd5137
    Aug 05, 2020

    Proulx short stories

    Brutal stories, beautifully told.

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  • by rockyriverblues
    Feb 12, 2006

    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 INTERESTING AND AN EASY READ. BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN IS A STORY FOR THE AGES....HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE.

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