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Tag Archives: Close Range: Wyoming Stories
Recommended Books: Fiction
I’ve added to this list. I still want to do a Non-Fiction one, eventually, but … you know … time permitting. Some authors are represented multiple times here. Other authors aren’t represented at all. For no real reason. Don’t read … Continue reading →
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Tagged 1984, A Prayer for Owen Meany, A Tale of Two Cities, A.S. Byatt, Amongst Women, Annie Proulx, Arthur Koestler, At Swim-Two-Birds, Austria, Bad Behavior, Beware of Pity, Birds of America, Bleak House, Canada, Cat's Eye, Catch-22, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Christine Falls, Close Range: Wyoming Stories, Crime and Punishment, Curtis Sittenfeld, Darkness at Noon, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Dublin, Dubliners, East of Eden, Edna O'Brien, Elinor Lipman, England, Evelyn Waugh, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flann O'Brien, Franny and Zooey, friends, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Geek Love, George Eliot, George Orwell, Going After Cacciato, Handmaid's Tale, Henry James, Herman Melville, Hopeful Monsters, House of Leaves, Huckleberry Finn, Hungary, Inherent Vice, Iran, Ireland, Italy, J.D. Salinger, James Salter, Jane Eyre, Jeanette Winterson, Jincy Willett, Joan Didion, John Banville, John Irving, John McGahern, John Steinbeck, Joseph Heller, Joshua Ferris, Joy Williams, Katherine Dunn, Keri Hulme, L.M. Montgomery, Lives of the Saints, Lorrie Moore, Margaret Atwood, Mark Danielewski, Mark Helprin, Mary Gaitskill, Master and Margarita, Mating, Michael Chabon, Middlemarch, Mikhail Bulgakov, Moby Dick, Nancy Lemann, New Zealand, Nicholas Mosley, Norman Rush, Patricia Highsmith, Patrick O'Brian, Philip K. Dick, Play It As It Lays, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Possession, Prep, Russia, Scoop, Sergei Kirov, Sexing the Cherry, Shirley Jackson, Stefan Zweig, Stephen King, Tana French, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Bone People, The Country Girls, The Dead, The Grass Harp, The Great Gatsby, The Passion, The Shipping News, Tim O'Brien, Truman Capote, Victor Serge, Villette, Winter's Tale
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The Books: “Close Range: Wyoming Stories” – ‘Brokeback Mountain’ (Annie Proulx)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction Close Range : Wyoming Stories, by Annie Proulx – excerpt from the story ‘Brokeback Mountain’. First published in The New Yorker in 1997, ‘Brokeback Mountain’ of course went on to be her most famous short … Continue reading →
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Tagged Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain, Close Range: Wyoming Stories, fiction
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The Books: “Close Range: Wyoming Stories” – ‘A Lonely Coast’ (Annie Proulx)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction Close Range : Wyoming Stories, by Annie Proulx – excerpt from the story ‘A Lonely Coast’. A depressing story all-around. With a couple of rarities in terms of Proulx’s other work: It’s a first-person narrative, … Continue reading →
The Books: “Close Range: Wyoming Stories” – ‘The Bunchgrass Edge Of the World’ (Annie Proulx)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction Close Range : Wyoming Stories, by Annie Proulx – excerpt from the story ‘The Bunchgrass Edge of the World’. Like ‘People In Hell Just Want A Drink Of Water’, another story in the collection (excerpt … Continue reading →
The Books: “Close Range: Wyoming Stories” – ‘People In Hell Just Want A Drink Of Water’ (Annie Proulx)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction Close Range : Wyoming Stories, by Annie Proulx. ‘People In Hell Just Want A Drink Of Water’ tells the story of two ranching families – the Dunmires and the Tinsleys – going back in generations, … Continue reading →
The Books: “Close Range: Wyoming Stories” – ‘The Mud Below’ (Annie Proulx)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction Close Range : Wyoming Stories, by Annie Proulx. The stories in Close Range show a world both transcendent and brutal. There’s not a lot of love here … or what there is, is thwarted and … Continue reading →
The Books: “Close Range: Wyoming Stories” – ‘The Half-Skinned Steer’ (Annie Proulx)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction Close Range : Wyoming Stories, by Annie Proulx. Oh God, I love this collection of short stories. I read many of them (like “Brokeback Mountain”) when they first appeared in The New Yorker – and … Continue reading →
2006 Books
Books read this year. I actually may end up adding a couple more to the list – since I am bed-ridden at the moment and could finish 2 more books by the time the damn ball drops across the river. … Continue reading →
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