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Wyoming Stories Series

This series delves into the rugged beauty of the American West, specifically the heart of Wyoming. The narratives capture the lives of individuals grappling with loneliness, swift violence, and often troubled relationships. The author masterfully portrays the complexities of the human spirit set against a landscape that is as harsh as it is magnificent. These are compelling tales of desperation, hard times, and unexpected elation.

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    Wyoming Stories

    • 318 pages
    • 12 hours of reading
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    From the author of <i>The Shipping News</i> comes a collection of short stories inspired by the harsh and unforgiving landscape of Wyoming. Throughout, Annie Proulx invests these stories with an intelligence and black humour that transforms them into something new and surprising. In one story, a slight young man defies his mother's insults to become a rodeo star, while in another, an octogenarian finds himself drawn back to the ranch that he quit decades before — against his better judgement. Elsewhere, Proulx demonstrates her taste for the macabre in a grisly tale of bad weather, gambling and amputation set a hundred years ago. And in ‘<i>Brokeback Mountain</i>’, Proulx changes gear once again to describe the unexpected love that flowers between two cowboys as they struggle with the elements in some extremely inhospitable terrain. Inventive, compassionate and wildly funny, these marvellous stories explore the unbreakable bond between a people and their land, and will delight Proulx's fans everywhere. Contents: - <i>The Half-Skinned Steer</i> - <i>The Mud Below</i> - <i>Job History</i> - <i>The Blood Bay</i> - <i>People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water</i> - <i>The Bunchgrass Edge of the World</i> - <i>Pair a Spurs</i> - <i>A Lonely Coast</i> - <i>The Governors of Wyoming</i> - <i>55 Miles to the Gas Pump</i> - <i>Brokeback Mountain</i>

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    Bad Dirt

    Wyoming Stories 2

    • 241 pages
    • 9 hours of reading
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    "The stories in Annie Proulx's new collection are peopled by characters who struggle with circumstances beyond their control in a kind of rural noir half-light. Trouble comes at them from unexpected angles, and they will themselves through it, hardheaded and resourceful. Bound by the land and by custom, they inhabit worlds that are often isolated, dangerous, and in Proulx's prose, vivid." In "What Kind of Furniture Would Jesus Pick?" rancher Gilbert Wolfscale, alienated from his sons, bewildered by his criminal ex-wife, gets shoved down his throat the fact that the old-style ranch life has gone. Several stories concern the eccentric denizens of Elk Tooth, a tiny hamlet where life revolves around three bars. Elk Toothers enter beard-growing contests, scrape together a living hauling hay, catch poachers in unorthodox ways. "Man Crawling Out of Trees" is about urban newcomers from the east and their discovery, too late, that one of them has violated the deepest ethics of the place. Above all, these stories are about the lives of rapidly disappearing rural Americans.

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