{"product_id":"close-range-wyoming-stories-9780684852225","title":"Close Range: Wyoming Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Shipping News\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAccordion Crimes\u003c\/i\u003e comes one of the most celebrated short story collections of our time.\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 Brokeback Mountain, the difficult affair between two cowboys survives everything but the world's violent 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, The Atlantic Monthly, 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 and \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories of the Century\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Proulx, Annie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/10\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780684852225\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.92h x 5.42w x 0.66d","brand":"Annie Proulx","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39840377569355,"sku":"9780684852225","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_9c48a51a-05ee-4689-8fb2-73ec8c2d1182.jpg?v=1661873534","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/close-range-wyoming-stories-9780684852225","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}