Close Range: Wyoming Stories (Collins Modern Classics)

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News, a collection of short stories inspired by the harsh and unforgiving landscape of Wyoming.
If he does not force his attention on it, it might stoke the day, rewarm that old, cold time on the mountain when they owned the world and nothing seemed wrong.

Inspired by the brutal and magnificent landscape of Wyoming, this is one of the most celebrated short story collections of our time. In Brokeback Mountain, an affair between two cowboys survives everything but the world's violent intolerance, while other stories chart desperation, hard times and unlikely elation. Annie Proulx invests each with an intelligence and black humour that transforms them into something new and surprising in their exploration of the unbreakable bond between a people and their land.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News, Brokeback Mountain confirms Annie Proulxs status as one of the most powerful and accomplished voices in contemporary American fiction.

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Ms. Proulx writes with all the brutal beauty of one of her Wyoming snowstorms, The Wall Street Journal

A stunning collection of eleven tales about the hard lives of the ranchers, cowpokes and country wives who struggle to survive in an unforgiving environment. Written in a wonderfully flexible style that can be both spare and extravagant, her book has been hailed by American critics as a masterpiece. Daily Telegraph

Like a mystic seeing the transfigured universe, she recreates the beauty of ordinary things. Independent on Sunday

The detail is meticulous, the prose poetic and Proulx's fiction teems with life. Above all, her stories engage the heart. Magical. Tatler

Proulx's style, compressed, elastic, hard-hitting, is inimitable: close to poetry but never self-indulgent. This is writing to be savoured. Sunday Telegraph

These are tales we can almost feel in our bones. Sunday Times

Individually, these 11 tales have a tautness and an urgency that are never less than exhilarating. Collectively, they encapsulate an entire, unremittingly bleak world. To find the pulse of humanity in such desperate lives betokens a writer of genius. Saturday Telegraph

Author Bio

Annie Proulx published her first novel Postcards in 1991 at the age of 56. She is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News, the acclaimed novels Accordion Crimes and That Old Ace in the Hole, and the bestselling short story collection, Close Range.