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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Scribner
Manufacturer: Scribner
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: February 10, 2000
Publisher: Scribner
Sales Rank: 402525
Studio: Scribner
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A breathtaking collection of unabridged stories from the Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes
Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love.
Close Range features 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.
Amazon.com Review:
Pulitzer Prize-winner E. Annie Proulx forays through the underside of America's beloved Wild West in Close Range, a collection of stories about hardship and more hardship in Wyoming territory. Understanding that the West's infinite spaces tended to inspire neither introspection nor contemplation, but a violent and insatiable restlessness, Proulx's eight stories are dark reflections on the lives of a handful of characters striving to define themselves against the unforgiving landscapes. The three professional actors chosen to read the text give strong, resounding interpretations of the macabre tales. (Running time: 6 hours, 4 cassettes) --Natasha Senjanovich
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After reading anything written by Annie Proulx, whether a full-fledged novel or short story, it is no wonder that she is a prize winning author. Her ability to craft stories both strange and familiar that captivate the reader's soul is a remarkable gift. "Close Range: Wyoming Stories" is famous in that it is the collection that contains 'Brokeback Mountain', but there are other stories in the collection that are just as deserving of praise and recognition.
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While this is certainly not easy reading, I thought it was fantastic.
The writing is sparse and lives fly by and disintegrate in single
paragraphs. It really seems that not a single word is wasted.
I think that the comparisons with other books about
cowboys and life in the untamed West are off the mark. If anything,
these books are much closer to Chekhov's writing about people
"of the land" although that comparison is certainly imperfect.
I am ... Read More
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This author is clearly very, very good in painting a picture of mid-century life in Wyoming. Brokeback Mountain is a gem of a little story, but it and the others are real downers... life was tough then and Proux makes you understand just how tough it was through a group of short stories.
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I took this book and Into the Wild by Krakauer with me on a 3 day backpacking trip in the mountains. Read Proulx.
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Shipping News and known for vigorous mercurial prose, Annie Proulx takes readers on a journey of speed and destiny in Close Range. Her ability to uncover and dissipate the dead waters of American culture, providing a rich love of character and story in the process, is replete with momentum and artistry. Her stories burn like bonfires in the darkness of a vast literary plain.
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