{"product_id":"close-rangebooks","title":"Close Range","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Shipping News\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAccordion Crimes\u003c\/i\u003e comes one of the most celebrated short story collections of our time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnnie 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThese 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eStories in \u003ci\u003eClose Range\u003c\/i\u003e have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGQ.\u003c\/i\u003e They have been selected for the \u003ci\u003eO. Henry Stories 1998\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories of the Century\u003c\/i\u003e and have won the National Magazine Award for Fiction. This is work by an author writing at the peak of her craft.","brand":"Proulx, Annie","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":42974234935520,"sku":"","price":11.4,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1689d398-06e9-4b1e-8015-33d5d37ff83f.jpg?v=1655384805","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/close-rangebooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}