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Annie Proulx - Close Range: An Unabridged Collection of Wyoming Stories

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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.

This collection includes:

  • "The Half-Skinned Steer", read by Bruce Greenwoo
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    Tales of the West as Cradle and Crucible

    Date of Review:  Feb 16, 2000
    Review: It occurred to me as I was looking over Annie Proulx's Close Range: Wyoming Stories once again for this review that she would have had an excellent career as a roving correspondent. After all, her evocation of Newfoundland in The Shipping News won a...
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    Beautiful, Sad Prose.

    Date of Review:  Mar 19, 2001
    The Bottom Line: Shimmering prose, descriptions as crisp as a spring morning.
    Review: Close Range is a painfully true collection of stories detailing down south. I was disgusted, fascinated and touched by it in turns, and at last here is a book that does not apologize for its existence to the reader.

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    Wonderful book.
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    Depressing stories!
     
     

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    Product Details and Features

    Key Information

    Authors Annie Proulx
    Narrator William Dufris
    Fiction Genre Juvenile Fiction
    Fiction Subgenre Unknown
    Awards 2000 Pulitzer Prize

    Professional Reviews

      New York Review of Books: "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."

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      Format: Hardcover
    Publisher: Scribner (May 01, 1999)
    Measurements: 6.75"(h) x 9.5"(w) x 1.25"(d), 1.2 lbs.
    ISBN: 9780684852218
     

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