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Wyoming Stories

Annie Proulx returns to the Wyoming of
Brokeback Mountain
and the familiar cast of hardy, unsentimental prairie folk. The stories roam 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.

Bold, elegant and memorable, these stories of a brutal and magnificent landscape one again confirm Annie Proulx as one of the most talented short story writers.

‘Heartbreakingly beautiful’

Daily Telegraph

‘If more people could write short stories like this, the novel would indeed be in serious trouble’

IRVINE WELSH
,
Financial Times

‘Prepare to be delighted by this … To read her descriptions of the West is to fall hopelessly and inescapably in love’

Evening Standard

Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories
Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories
That Old Ace in the Hole
Close Range: Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories
Heart Songs
The Shipping News
Postcards

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This Fourth Estate edition published 2009

First published in paperback by Fourth Estate in 1997
and by Harper Perennial in 2006.

First published in Great Britain in 1996 by Fourth Estate

Copyright © Dead Line, Ltd. 1996

Annie Proulx asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

This short story collection is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and
incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance
to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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