Close Range: Wyoming Stories
A Westerns, Glbt, Literature book. There's a feeling you get driving down to Casper at night from the north, and...
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- Pages: 336 pages
- ISBN: 9780684867267 / 684867265
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Heres Doc Osborne, first Democratic governor. A lynch mob hung Big Nose George Parrott back in the 1870s. Doc got the body, skinned it, tanned the hide, made himself a medical bag and a pair a shoes. Wore the shoes to his inauguration. They dont make Democrats like that anymore. Annie Proulx, Close Range // A kind of joyous hysteria moved into the room, everything flying before the wind, vehicles outside getting dented to hell, the crowd sweaty and the smells of aftershave, manure, clothes dried on the line, your moneys worth of perfume, smoke, booze; the music subdued by the shout and babble through the bass hammer could be felt through the soles of the feet, shooting up the channels of legs to the body fork, center of everything. It is the kind of Saturday night that torches your life for a few hours, makes it seem like something is happening. Annie Proulx,... There's a feeling you get driving down to Casper at night from the north, and not only there, other places where you come through hours of darkness unrelieved by any lights except the crawling wink of some faraway ranch truck. You come down a grade and all at once the shining town lies below you, slung out like all western towns, and with the curved bulk of mountain behind it. The lights trail away to the east in a brief and stubby cluster of yellow that butts hard up against the dark. And if you've ever been to the lonely coast you've seen how the shore...
my Republican rancher father, who will love the covers off this book Just re- read "Brokeback Mountain" last night and it is far better even than I remembered. It is now officially my favorite love story of all time.The fact that probably the best movie of 1997 was made from this short story demonstrates the pith and density of the story telling in this book. Proulx (I think rhymes with 'crew'), is,... Just reread this, after I kept looking up, seeing it on the shelf, and thinking, "Man, I need to reread that." There isn't a wasted word in this book. The stories are lean, visceral, and operatic. Her characters and plots surprise in the way that Flannery O'Connor's do, by spontaneous manifestations of grace and evil. The collection...
