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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
Fabric Type: 9781416571674
Fax Number: Reprint
Legal Disclaimer: 1416571671
Maximum Color Depth: Scribner
Metal Type: Scribner
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 240
Total External Bays Free: September 08, 2009
Total Firewire Ports: Scribner
Scribner
Features:- ISBN13: 9781416571674
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Returning to the territory of "Brokeback Mountain" (in her first volume of Wyoming Stories) and Bad Dirt (her second), National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx delivers a stunning and visceral new collection. In Fine Just the Way It Is, she has expanded the limits of the form. Her stories about multiple generations of Americans struggling through life in the West are a ferocious, dazzling panorama of American folly and fate.
"Every ranch...had lost a boy," thinks Dakotah Hicks as she drives through "the hammered red landscape" of Wyoming, "boys smiling, sure in their risks, healthy, tipped out of the current of life by liquor and acceleration, rodeo smashups, bad horses, deep irrigation ditches, high trestles, tractor rollovers and 'unloaded' guns. Her boy, too...The trip along this road was a roll call of grief."
Proulx's characters try to climb out of poverty and desperation but get cut down as if the land itself wanted their blood. Deeply sympathetic to the men and women fighting to survive in this harsh place, Proulx turns their lives into fiction with the power of myth -- and leaves the reader in awe. The winner of two O. Henry Prizes, Annie Proulx has been anthologized in nearly every major collection of great American stories. Her bold, inimitable language, her exhilarating eye for detail and her dark sense of humor make this a profoundly compelling collection.
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Bitter misfortune oozes from every sentence in "Fine Just the Way It Is," Annie Proulx's third and latest collection of Wyoming stories. Once again, Proulx finds imaginative ways to marinate her unfortunate characters in every conceivable form of pain, injury, and humiliation, and she makes us love it. To say the best of these stories have gut-punch power is to understate their impact severely.
Three of the stories in this volume rank with Proulx's very best. These are "Them Old Cowboy ... Read More
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She stole my heart with Brokeback Mountain. And still does. Many readers are derailed by her almost brutal presentation of life. She does not sugar-coat the harshness of this journey, nor does she hide the palpable beauty of love. The visits with el diablo were a change, and a jumping jolt, reminding us of human greed, and its' dire consequences.
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Annie Proulx is a fearless writer. Her prose can be as uncompromising as the Wyoming landscape she inhabits, but, like it, laden with complexity; as well, it can paint poetic images (crones vied for the favors of palsied men with beef jerkey arms. The men could taken their pick of shapeless housecoats and flowery skeletons." "Herons flying upstream, their color matching the sky so closely they might have been eyes of wind." Each piece deals with yet another aspect of the history of the land, and ... Read More
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Super book! I just love Annie Proulx's writing style! Her words just come off the page and evoke my imagination like no other writer does! Frankly, this book is everything I expected. I was curious about Brokeback Mountain when it appeared in the New Yorker magazine. When I saw the movie I just had to read the story to find out more. If you want to read more about Wyoming and the country life this book is for you! When I go visit my friend's ranch here in New Mexico, Annie Proulx's stories come alive ... Read More
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AP explicitly warns us that things are not going to turn out well for the sympathetic protagonists of Them Old Cowboy Songs. And they don't. Same with the rest of the serious stories in this collection. AP is just a terrific writer, and so I was carried along to the dismal ends of these stories, and I'm not sorry I stuck with them. But, as others have pointed out, while Brokeback Mountain does not feature a Shipping News ending, it poigniantly teaches the reader something wonderful about the nature of ... Read More
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