Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3

Synopsis

returning To The Territory Of Brokeback Mountain, National Book Award And Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Proulx Delivers A Stunning And Visceral Collection Of New Stories. In fine Just The Way It Is, She Has Expanded The Limits Of The Form. Her Stories About Multiple Generations Of Americans Struggling Through Life In The West Are A Ferocious, Dazzling Panorama Of American Folly And Fate.

proulx's Characters Try To Climb Out Of Poverty And Desperation But Get Cut Down As If The Land Itself Wanted Their Blood. Deeply Sympathetic To The Men And Women Fighting To Survive In This Harsh Place, Proulx Turns Their Lives Into Fiction With The Power Of Myth — And Leaves The Listener In Awe.

the Winner Of Two O. Henry Prizes, Annie Proulx Has Been Anthologized In Every Major Collection Of Great American Stories. Her Bold, Inimitable Language, Her Exhilarating Eye For Detail And Her Dark Sense Of Humor Make This A Profoundly Compelling Collection.

the New York Times - Ron Carlson

this Is Annie Proulx, A Writer Who Staked Her Claim Around The Spectacular Rectangle Of Wyoming By Marking Its Metes And Bounds With close Range, Took Insurance On It With bad Dirt And Now Appears With fine Just The Way It Is, A Third Collection Of Wyoming Stories, Just To Make Sure. The Title Could Be Paraphrased Even If It's Broken, Don't Fix It. close Range Is A Remarkable Book, Lyric And Gritty, And It Contains Brokeback Mountain, A Breathtaking Love Story. But Each Of These Collections Bears Proulx's Brand Of Hard Drama, Hard Irony, Hard Weather, And Hard And Soft Characters Blown About And Many Times Destroyed By The Powerful Mix. Her Sense Of Story Is Admirable, Her Sentences Are Artful, And She Writes Like A Demon. She Has Nicely Disrupted The Mythology Of The Old West.