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Fine Just the Way it is: Wyoming Stories 3

Fine Just the Way it is: Wyoming Stories 3

Author(s): Annie Proulx

Location(s): Wyoming

Genre(s): Fiction

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The fantastic new collection of stories from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘The Shipping News’ and ‘Brokeback Mountain’.

‘Fine Just The Way It Is’ marks Annie Proulx’s return to the Wyoming of ‘Brokeback Mountain’ and the familiar cast of hardy, unsentimental prairie folk. The stories are cast over centuries, and capture the voices and lives of the settlers this sagebrushed and weatherworn country has known, from the native Indian tribes to the modern day ranch owners and politicians, and their cowboy forebears.

In ‘A Family Man’, an old man nearing the end of his life unburdens himself of the weighty family secrets that were his father’s unwelcome legacy. ‘Them Old Cowboy Songs’ follows Archie and Rosie, a young pioneer couple, and their hardships in their attempt to homestead in the exposed wintry expanses of the prairie, and ‘Testimony of the Donkey’ finds a young international couple, Marc and Caitlin, struggling with much more modern concerns, and confronting uncertainty as their relationship comes to its end.

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‘A sublimely good writer about landscape and the relationship of man to landscape…Proulx’s brilliance is to hedge her hard comedy with tremendous tenderness …These are meticulous, wonderfully actualised descriptions of small lives lived in...

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