- Close Range: Wyoming Stories
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1st editionAuthor(s) E. Annie Proulx Country United States Language English Publisher Scribner Publication date May 10, 1999 Media type Print (Hardcover and Paperback) Pages 288 pp ISBN 0684852217 OCLC Number 40595315 Dewey Decimal 813/.54 21 LC Classification PS3566.R697 C58 1999 Close Range: Wyoming Stories is a 1999 collection of short stories written by E. Annie Proulx. The stories are set in the desolate landscape of rural Wyoming and detail the often grim lives of the protagonists.
The best known story from the collection is Brokeback Mountain, which was previously published as a 64-page novella in 1998. The story was the basis for Ang Lee's 2005 film, Brokeback Mountain, starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.
The volume includes 11 short stories:
- "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 a Spurs"
- "A Lonely Coast"
- "The Governors of Wyoming"
- "55 Miles to the Gas Pump"
- "Brokeback Mountain"
External links
- Don't Fence Me In: Book review by the New York Times
Heart Songs and Other Stories (1988) • Postcards (1991) • The Shipping News (1993) • Accordion Crimes (1996) • Close Range: Wyoming Stories (1999) • That Old Ace in the Hole (2002) • Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 (2004) • Fine Just the Way It Is (2008) • Bird Cloud: A Memoir (2011)
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