Close Range (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Annie Proulx
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Principal Characters: Mero Corn, Car Scrope, Mrs. Freeze, Haul Smith, Ottaline Touhey, Flyby Amendinger, Diamond Pelts, Ice Dunmire, Dirt Sheets, Jack Twist, Ennis del Mar, Leecil Bewd, Aladdin Touhey, Pake Bitts, Cody Joe Bibby
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Blizzards, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, West, U.S., Folklore, Ranches, ranchers, or ranching, Rodeos
Annie Proulx knows how to inhabit a place as if she had been born there, as she did when she created a Newfoundland setting for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Shipping News (1993). During that time she reportedly took a vernacular dictionary to bed with her in order to increase her proficiency in the local dialect. With Close Range: Wyoming Stories, she again masters the regional speech (“The arithmetic stood comfortable”); however, she has lived in that state for several years and has written all of her books there except the first, Heart Songs and Other...
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