| Description |
318 pages ; 20 cm |
| Series |
Wyoming stories ; 1 |
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Proulx, Annie.
Wyoming stories ; 1
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| Contents |
The half-skinned steer. -- The mud below. -- Job history. -- The blood bay. -- People in Hell just want a drink of water. -- The bunchgrass edge of the world. -- Pair of spurs. -- A lonely coast. -- The governors of Wyoming. -- Miles to the gas pump. -- Brokeback Mountain |
| Summary |
"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."--BOOK JACKET. "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."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Reissue to coincide with movie release, 2006 |
| Subject |
Short stories, American.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Wyoming -- Fiction.
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Ranch life -- Wyoming -- Fiction.
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Wyoming -- Fiction.
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Wyoming -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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Fiction.
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Fiction.
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| LC no. |
00001452 |
| ISBN |
1857029429 paperback |
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