Close Range
Wyoming Stories
Published on 3. June 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-85702-942-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
360 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85702-942-0 (9781857029420)
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Now writing under the name of Annie Proulx, E. Annie Proulx is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and the acclaimed Accordion Crimes. She is also the author of a previous short story collection, Heart Songs.