Close Range: Wyoming Stories
From the 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 unabridged, breathtaking tales of loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong...
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From the 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 unabridged, breathtaking tales of loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love. Each of the stunning portraits in Close Range -- including the original story "Brokeback Mountain", the basis for the Academy Award-winning script -- reveals characters fiercely wrought with precision and grace.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780684852218 (0684852217)
Publish date: May 10th 1999
Publisher: Scribner
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Series: Wyoming Stories (#1)
Author Annie Proulx became famous after her short story “Brokeback Mountain” was made into a movie in 2005 that won three Academy Awards and received five more Oscar nominations. (Plus, Proulx was just awarded the 2018 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.) This short story was originally ...
These stories are realistic, gritty, beautiful, and amazing. Having grown up in Colorado, I was familiar with the setting of this book, but I've never seen it described this well. Annie Proulx has a gift for using language precisely. I can see why she has won so many literary prizes.All of these st...
Close Range is Annie Proulx's anthology of 11 ranch/cowboy themed short stories, including Brokeback Mountain. I have to say, that there were a lot of good stories in here, not just the last one. I was suprised by the book in a few ways, not least being that I enjoyed every one of them, more than I...
I recently reread this and just want to say (again and again) that I love it. I am awed by the talent for authentically, seamlessly and irresistibly writing the vernacular of a place -- its landscape and language and quirks and peeves, everything to do with the habits of its people and weather, ulti...
This is Proulx's best territory - wry, unromantic tales which capture human oddity with unfailing precision
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