| Ubicación : | 813/P946c | | Autores: | Proulx, Annie, Autor | | Título : | Close Range. Wyoming stories| Fuente : | United States of America [US] : Scribner Paperback Fiction, 2000, 285 p. | | Temas : | AMERICAN LITERATURE-NOVEL –FICTION- ANTHOLOGY | | Resumen : | Summary : These are stories of desperation, hard times, and unlikely elation, set in a landscape both brutal and magnificent. Enlivened by folk tales, flights of fancy, and details of ranch and rural work, they juxtapose Wyoming's traditional character and attitudes -- confrontation of tough problems, prejudice, and persistence in the face of difficulty -- with the more benign values of the new west.
Stories in Close Range have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and GQ. They have been selected for the O. Henry Stories 1998 and The Best American Short Stories of the Century and have won the National Magazine Award for Fiction. This is work by an author writing at the peak of her craft. ...leer masleer menos | |
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