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Close Range: Wyoming Stories is a 1999 collection of short stories by Annie Proulx,[1] beginning in 1997. The stories are set in the desolate landscape of rural Wyoming and detail the often grim lives of the protagonists.
 First edition cover | |
| Author | Annie Proulx |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Scribner |
Publication date | May 10, 1999 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 288 pp |
| ISBN | 0-684-85221-7 |
| OCLC | 40595315 |
| 813/.54 21 | |
| LC Class | PS3566.R697 C58 1999 |
The collection was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
The best known story from the collection is "Brokeback Mountain", which was previously published as a 64-page novella in 1998. The story was the basis for Ang Lee's 2005 film, Brokeback Mountain.
The volume includes 11 short stories:
- "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", a brief vignette about a rancher's wife who discovers the corpses of missing women in the attic
- "Brokeback Mountain"
References
edit- ^ Christopher Lehmann-Haupt (12 May 1999). "'Close Range': Lechery and Loneliness Out West". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
External links
edit- Don't Fence Me In: Book review by the New York Times