Annie Proulx, Close Range: Wyoming Stories

Aliki Varvogli (University of Dundee)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1999

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Story Collection

Resources

This collection of stories was published in the period between two novels: Accordion Crimes of 1996 and That Old Ace in the Hole of 2002. Annie Proulx has described it as a “side trip”, thus implying that she views novels as her main area of interest and activity, with story collections coming second. In interviews, she has admitted that the reason why she prefers novels to stories is that she finds the latter much more difficult to write. However, having recently moved to Wyoming, she felt a strong need to write about her new surroundings, and the idea of doing so in a collection of tales “seized” her entirely. The book’s epigraph quotes a “retired rancher”, presumably from Wyoming, who said that “Reality�…

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Citation: Varvogli, Aliki. "Close Range: Wyoming Stories". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 02 March 2004 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=5981, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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