Close Range
Wyoming Stories
Close Range is a 1999 gay fiction story collection by Annie Proulx. Much of the action takes place in Wyoming. It deals with frontier and pioneer life, ranch life, manners and customs and male friendship.
Open Library readers give it an average of 3.5 out of 5 from 6 ratings, and 33 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 33 editions across 7 languages.
It runs to roughly 296 pages — 5–6 hours of reading at an average pace.
About Close Range
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes one of the most celebrated short-story collections of our time. Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in these breathtaking tales of loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love. Each of the stunning portraits in Close Range reveals characters fiercely wrought with precision and grace. These are stories of desperation and unlikely elation, set in a landscape both stark and magnificent -- by an author writing at the peak of her craft.
Quick answers
Who wrote Close Range?
Close Range was written by Annie Proulx and first published in 1999.
What genre is Close Range?
It is usually shelved as Gay Fiction.
How long is Close Range?
The median edition has 296 pages, about 5–6 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.
What books are similar to Close Range?
Readers who like it often enjoy Native, Wounded and A Little Life.
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