num_pages: 289
description: Short-story collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes.Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in these tales of loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love. Each of the 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.The half-skinned steer --The mud below --55 miles to the gas pump --The bunchgrass edge of the world --A lonely coast --Job history --Pair a spurs --People in Hell just want a drink of water --The governors of Wyoming --The blood bay --Brokeback Mountain
language: English
title: Close Range: Wyoming Stories
titlecomplete: Close Range: Wyoming Stories
genres: Short Stories, American, Literary Fiction, LGBT, Queer, Literature, The United States Of America, Westerns, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 16711
places: The United States of America, Wyoming
series: Wyoming Stories
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Borders Original Voices Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Ambassador Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Scribner