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Close range : Wyoming stories
Format:
Book (regular print)
Title:
Close range : Wyoming stories
Edition:
[Unillustrated edition]
Publication:
New York, NY : Scribner, [1999?]
Physical Description:
283 pages ; 25 cm
General Note:
Seventh printing lacks color illustrations.

"'Brokeback Mountain,' 'The Mud Below,' 'The Blood Bay,' and 'The Bunchgrass Edge of the World' originally appeared in The New Yorker; 'The Half-Skinned Steer' appeared in The Atlantic Monthly; 'People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water' appeared in GQ"--Title page verso.
Contents:
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 -- Brokeback Mountain.
Summary:
"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. 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 word's violent intolerance"-- Dust cover.
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