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Close Range: Wyoming Stories Information
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 Close Range: Wyoming Stories is a 1999 collection of short stories written by E. Annie Proulx. The stories are set in the desolate landscape of rural Wyoming and detail the often grim lives of the protagonists. The most acclaimed story from the...


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 The Independent - London
Stories close to home
02/23/1994: 865 words, approx. 3 pages Raymond Carver made poetry out of the prosaic. One critic wrote that "he revealed the strangeness concealed behind the banal", but what he really did was capture the wonderful idiosyncracies of human behaviour, the idiosyncracies that exist amid the randomness of life's experiences. And...
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 The Boston Globe
An inside story on a closing
02/22/1993: 842 words, approx. 3 pages They met at a fraternity party at Case Western Reserve and were married a year later. She had a master's degree in speech therapy, but after their three daughters were born she chose to stay home. "She was an excellent mother," Bill Hayes...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Review by Hilary Mantel
2,910 words, approx. 10 pages
 In the following review, Mantel commends Proulx's prose in Close Range, praising how Proulx “brings local and specific detail into focus for every reader.”
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Critical Review by Erin McGraw
2,531 words, approx. 8 pages
 In the following excerpt, McGraw discusses the recurring theme of violence in American fiction and offers a positive assessment of Close Range.
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Critical Review by Michael Kowalewski
2,444 words, approx. 8 pages
 In the following excerpt, Kowalewski discusses the significance of place in American fiction and offers a mixed assessment of Close Range.


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