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Close Range: Wyoming Storiesby Annie Proulx
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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 these breathtaking tales of loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love. Each of the stunning portraits in Close Range reveals characters fiercely wrought with precision and grace. These are stories of desperation and unlikely elation, set in a landscape both stark and magnificent — by an author writing at the peak of her craft. Review:Anna MundowNew York Daily NewsClose 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. Review:The New York Times Powerful...Read [the stories] for their absolute authenticity and their language, a wry poetry of loneliness and pain. Review:Michael UpchurchThe Seattle Times Book ReviewHer 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. Review:Michael KnightThe Wall Street JournalMs. Proulx writes with all the brutal beauty of one of her Wyoming snowstorms. Review:Outside magazine A major achievement in American fiction — a gorgeous, deeply affecting adventure in stylistic plenitude, prose clarity, and hearts laid bare. Review:Michael Knight The Wall Street Journal Ms. Proulx writes with all the brutal beauty of one of her Wyoming snowstorms. About the AuthorAnnie Proulx has held NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships and residences at Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. Her first short story collection, Heart Songs and Other Stories, appeared in 1988, followed in 1992 by Postcards, which won the 1993 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The 1993 novel The Shipping News won the Chicago Tribune's Heartland Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Accordion Crimes, Proulx's most recent novel, was published in June 1996. She began working on the stories collected in Close Range in 1997. "The Half-Skinned Steer" was selected by Garrison Keillor for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 1998 and by John Updike for The Best American Short Stories of the Century. "Brokeback Mountain" won a 1998 O. Henry Short Story Award and a National Magazine Award through its publication in The New Yorker. Annie Proulx lives in Wyoming, but spends much of the year traveling North America. Table of ContentsContents The Half-Skinned Steer The Mud Below Job History The Blood Bay People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water The Bunchgrass Edge of the World Pair a Spurs A Lonely Coast The Governors of Wyoming 55 Miles to the Gas Pump Brokeback Mountain What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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