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Close Range : Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx; watercolors by William Matthews is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes one of the most celebrated short story collections of our time. Annie 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. These 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. Stories in Close Range have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and

Who reads Close Range : Wyoming Stories?

Author

Annie Proulx; watercolors by William Matthews

Publisher

Pocket Books, HarperCollins Distribution Services [distributor],. Jonathan Ball Publishers SA [distributor],. Simon & Schuster Ltd,Australia [distributor],. HarperCollins New Zealand [distributor

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780684852218

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Short Stories

Rating

3.99 / 5 (257 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14