{"product_id":"2940170803156","title":"Close Range: Wyoming Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eA breathtaking collection of unabridged stories from the Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Shipping News\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAccordion Crimes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnnie 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eClose Range\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\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":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47100019376368,"sku":"2940170803156","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170803156_p0.jpg?v=1763718128","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170803156","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}