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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
May 10, 1999

ISBN
  
0-684-85221-7

Author
  
Annie Proulx

Publisher
  
Charles Scribner's Sons

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Language
  
English

Pages
  
288 pp

Originally published
  
10 May 1999

Genre
  
Anthology

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Media type
  
Print (hardback & paperback)

Followed by
  
Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2

Awards
  
New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year, Ambassador Book Award for Fiction


Similar
  
Brokeback Mountain (short story), The Shipping News, Fine Just the Way It Is

Close Range: Wyoming Stories is a 1999 collection of short stories written by E. Annie Proulx, beginning in 1997. The stories are set in the desolate landscape of rural Wyoming and detail the often grim lives of the protagonists.

The collection was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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.

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", a brief vignette about a rancher's wife who discovers the corpses of missing women in the attic
  • "Brokeback Mountain"

    • References

    Close Range: Wyoming Stories Wikipedia
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