{"product_id":"9780684852218","title":"Close Range: Wyoming Stories","description":"\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48133739348208,"sku":"9780684852218","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780684852218_p0.jpg?v=1763608867","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780684852218","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}