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Close Range : Wyoming Stories

Description

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 these breathtaking tales of loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love. Each of the stunning portraits in Close Range reveals characters fiercely wrought with precision and grace.

These are stories of desperation and unlikely elation, set in a landscape both stark and magnificent -- by an author writing at the peak of her craft.

Pulitzer Prize-winner E. Annie Proulx forays through the underside of America's beloved Wild West in Close Range, a collection of stories about hardship and more hardship in Wyoming territory. Understanding that the West's infinite spaces tended to inspire neither introspection nor contemplation, but a violent and insatiable restlessness, Proulx's eight stories are dark reflections on the lives of a handful of characters striving to define themselves against the unforgiving landscapes. The three professional actors chosen to read the text give strong, resounding interpretations of the macabre tales. (Running time: 6 hours, 4 cassettes) --Natasha Senjanovich

Reviews

Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-07-09
Summary: "Impressive style; Depressing subject matter"

There's no question that AP has a masterful style. As another reviewer noted, it can be insidious, because you can be drawn by her great talent at creating a mood. Ultimately though, her work here disappoints because it is so uniformly bleak, without any contrast. The people she chooses to describe are losers, hard on themselves and on each others. I listened to this on audio books and I was "entertained" while driving some long distances. However, after story after story left me with no sense of real climax or conclusion, and certainly without any hope or warmth, I gave up on them.

What finally did me in was the story of the young fellow who had been terribly deformed in an accident, and then was castrated by his neighbors. Or was it the image of a half-skinned cow roaming the range with his tongue cut out that made me take the CD out of the player?

Ultimately the writer selects from the environment what she wants to see. These stories may show a part of Wyoming life, but it certainly doesn't represent all of it. I wish she would turn her eye to a brighter side of life; her talent is wasted here.

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-05-18
Summary: "Close Range by Annie Proulx"

Annie Proulx is enjoyable to read, a first-class story teller. She develops her own rythmn in the constructive way her sentences play out. I found myself re-reading a paragraph again to get a second jolt of its beauty and suddenness. Like biting into your favorite sandwich, the anxiety waiting for what is to follow, the expectations of upcoming satisfaction and delight.

We find in this book of 11 stories of diverse subjects of life in Wyoming sometimes shocking, sometimes humorous and always entertaining. I found two cowboys having sex with each other in Brokeback Mountain a stretch after watching rugged years of Randolf Scott, John Wayne, and Sam Elliott get the bad guy, drive the herd and end up with the girl at the end. The humor of the feet in the boots in The Blood Bay was a grabber for an ending to that story. The Half-Skinned Steer is an original entertaining story I also enjoyed.

Close Range is a book worth the time if you like well written western stories with a different flair.

Charles Hamilton Sr, Former Executive Director Northwest Teen Challenge and author of A Step Of Faith and From Darkness To Light.

From Darkness To Light

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-12-11
Summary: "Get it!!"

I gave this book as a gift. It is still one of the best I have ever read. Annie Proulx will make you very disappointed with any other author you read next. If you love the West and especially Wyoming, this book is a must.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-11-18
Summary: "Wyoming Stories"

I bought this as a Christmas gift last year at the receipient's request. He wanted it.

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Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2009-07-12
Summary: ".....yawn...."

I bought this book to read the much-lauded "Brokeback Mountain" on a dare from my nephew who calls it "Brokebutt Mountain." NO we are not anti-gay so don't start! This book is simply not in the same league as "The Shipping News." Proulx does not know my neighbors in Wyoming and it shows in this collection; she changes views of us westerners faster than Michael Jackson changed noses! I just hope she leaves Montana alone....