Close Range: Wyoming Stories

by Annie Proulx

William Matthews (Illustrator)

A new short-story collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes. Includes the acclaimed stories, Brokeback Mountain (winner of a National Magazine Award) and The Mud Below. Annie Proulx's previous short story collection Heart Songs was universally acclaimed: 'A shining collection...a polished, unflinching work.' (The Times). The new collection includes Brokeback Mountain, the highly-acclaimed and award-winning tale set in the beautiful, wild landscape of Wyoming where cowboys live as they have done for generations. Also included is the story The Mud Below that reveals the world of the rodeo, buckle bunnies and the quiet ambition of the boy who gives up everything to ride bulls. Remarkable and memorable, these new short stories will confirm Annie Proulx's status as one of the great story-tellers of our times.

• ISBN10: 0684008955
• ISBN13: 9780684008950
• Publish Date: 1 May 1999
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Simon & Schuster
• Format: Paperback (US Mass Market)
• Language: English

Reviews

[jamiereadthis]

Really lovely, really kind of subtly tremendous with both its people and its place. It’s just the kind of thing I want to read. It’s how to be in love with a place that will eat you alive.

Other cultures have camped here a while and disappeared. Only earth and sky matter. Only the endlessly repeated flood of morning light. You begin to see that God does not owe us much beyond that.
— “People In Hell Just Want a Drink of Water”

(In my quest to read the books my favorite authors have read, chalk up another win for Elmore Leonard.)