{"product_id":"close-range-wyoming-stories","title":"Close Range: Wyoming Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eAnnie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Shipping News \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e, showcases her \"gritty and gleaming\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) writing in \u003ci\u003eClose Range\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eone of the most celebrated story collections of all time--includes \"Brokeback Mountain.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnnie 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 the iconic story \"Brokeback Mountain,\" the difficult affair between two cowboys survives everything but the world's intolerance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStories in \u003ci\u003eClose Range\u003c\/i\u003e have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Harper's\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGQ.\u003c\/i\u003e They have been selected for the \u003ci\u003eO. Henry Stories 1998\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories of the Century\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Century of Fiction in The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and have won the National Magazine Award for Fiction. This is work by an author writing at the peak of her craft.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0684852225\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780684852225\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Proulx, Annie, N\/A, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Feb 2000)","offer_id":45660089712837,"sku":"9780684852225","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780684852225.jpg?v=1768918223","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/close-range-wyoming-stories","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}