Close Range: Wyoming Stories
by Annie Proulx
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Author: Annie ProulxEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2000-02-10
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Scribner
Book Reviews of Close Range: Wyoming Stories
Book Review: a sparse masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
While this is certainly not easy reading, I thought it was fantastic.
The writing is sparse and lives fly by and disintegrate in single
paragraphs. It really seems that not a single word is wasted.
I think that the comparisons with other books about
cowboys and life in the untamed West are off the mark. If anything,
these books are much closer to Chekhov's writing about people
"of the land" although that comparison is certainly imperfect.
I am somewhat surprised that some people took offense
at the way characters were depicted. I liked McMurtry's book,
but Captain Call and Gus are about as real as Hector and Achilles.
On the other hand I could well imagine meeting some people
from the pages of this book in a bar, not just in Wyoming.
Summary of Close Range: Wyoming Stories
A breathtaking collection of unabridged stories from the Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes
Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love.
Close Range features 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.
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
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