Annie Proulx is the author of eight books, including the novel The Shipping News and the story collection Close Range. Her many honors include a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and a PEN/Faulkner award. Her story "Brokeback Mountain," which originally appeared in The New Yorker, was made into an Academy Award-winning film. Her most recent novel is Barkskins. She lives in Seattle.
"Outside" magazine A major achievement in American fiction -- a
gorgeous, deeply affecting adventure in stylistic plenitude, prose
clarity, and hearts laid bare.
"People" As she rips away our romantic notions of the West, Proulx
asks how capable any of us are of outrunning our origins. Her
fatalistic answer, in these stories, adds up to some breathtaking
reading.
"The Boston Globe" Few writers feel equally at home in the novel
and the short story...[these stories] are tough as flint and on
occasion breathtaking; together they stand with Proulx's best
work.
"The New York Times" Powerful...Read [the stories] for their
absolute authenticity and their language, a wry poetry of
loneliness and pain.
Anna Mundow "New York Daily News Close Range" is not one long dirge
simply played in eleven different keys. Each story presents a
subtle change of mood and each character inhabits a particular
world, a world that Proulx constructs with graceful, devastating
sentences.
Carolyn See "The Washington Post Book World" It's the prose, as
much as the inventiveness of the stories here, that shines and
shines. Every single sentence surprises and delights and just bowls
you over.
Jill Vejnoska "Atlanta Journal-Constitution" Annie Proulx isn't
easy. Little she writes about smacks of the familiar. Where so many
successful authors strive to create worlds that are instantly, even
comfortably, recognizable to readers, Proulx goes where few others
would. It isn't easy, but "Close Range" is definitely worth it.
Michael Knight "The Wall Street Journal" Ms. Proulx writes with all
the brutal beauty of one of her Wyoming snowstorms.
Michael Upchurch "The Seattle Times Book Review" Her characters --
stoical, hardheaded, yet willing to be ravaged by the closest
available passion whenever the chance presents itself -- crackle
and cavort on the page. Served up a full array of life's wayward
ecstasies and gut-twisting losses, they resign themselves, in true
Proulx fashion, to the damage that loss and ecstasy do....Amen to
that, and amen to this book.
Richard Eder "The New York Times Book Review" Geography, splendid
and terrible, is a tutelary deity to the characters in "Close
Range." Their lives are futile uphill struggles conducted as a
downhill, out-of-control tearaway. Proulx writes of them in a prose
that is violent and impacted and mastered just at the point where,
having gone all the way to the edge, it is about to go over.
"Outside" magazine A major achievement in American fiction -- a
gorgeous, deeply affecting adventure in stylistic plenitude, prose
clarity, and hearts laid bare.
"People" As she rips away our romantic notions of the West, Proulx
asks how capable any of us are of outrunning our origins. Her
fatalistic answer, in these stories, adds up to some breathtaking
reading.
"The Boston Globe" Few writers feel equally at home in the novel
and the short story...[these stories] are tough as flint and on
occasion breathtaking; together they stand with Proulx's best
work.
"The New York Times" Powerful...Read [the stories] for their
absolute authenticity and their language, a wry poetry of
loneliness and pain.
Anna Mundow "New York Daily News Close Range" is not one long dirge
simply played in eleven different keys. Each story presents a
subtle change of mood and each character inhabits a particular
world, a world that Proulx constructs with graceful, devastating
sentences.
Carolyn See "The Washington Post Book World" It's the prose, as
much as the inventiveness of the stories here, that shines and
shines. Every single sentence surprises and delights and just bowls
you over.
Jill Vejnoska "Atlanta Journal-Constitution" Annie Proulx isn't
easy. Little she writes about smacks of the familiar. Where so many
successful authors strive to create worlds that are instantly, even
comfortably, recognizable to readers, Proulx goes where few others
would. It isn't easy, but "Close Range" is definitely worth it.
Michael Knight "The Wall Street Journal" Ms. Proulx writes with all
the brutal beauty of one of her Wyoming snowstorms.
Michael Upchurch "The Seattle Times Book Review" Her characters --
stoical, hardheaded, yet willing to be ravaged by the closest
available passion whenever the chance presents itself -- crackle
and cavort on the page. Served up a full array of life's wayward
ecstasies and gut-twisting losses, they resign themselves, in true
Proulx fashion, to the damage that loss and ecstasy do....Amen to
that, and amen to this book.
Richard Eder "The New York Times Book Review" Geography, splendid
and terrible, is a tutelary deity to the characters in "Close
Range." Their lives are futile uphill struggles conducted as a
downhill, out-of-control tearaway. Proulx writes of them in a prose
that is violent and impacted and mastered just at the point where,
having gone all the way to the edge, it is about to go over.
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