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Close Range
Annie Proulx
其他書名
Wyoming Stories
出版
Simon and Schuster
, 1999
主題
Fiction / Classics
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
ISBN
0684852217
9780684852218
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ACAyK2RWt0IC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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
GQ.
They have been selected for the
O. Henry Stories 1998
and
The Best American Short Stories of the Century
and have won the National Magazine Award for Fiction. This is work by an author writing at the peak of her craft.
