Posted on 15/01/05
Home on the range
When Close Range, Annie Proulx's collection of Wyoming short stories came out in 1999, I was gobsmacked. Give or take an Alice Munro or a Lorrie Moore, I hadn't read a collection so wild, so risky, so stand-on-your-head brilliant in a prairie dog's age. Though Proulx had set her previous fiction in a variety of locales, most notably Newfoundland in The Shipping News, she had found a home on the range. Her western setting is an immanent presence, both dwarfing and absorbing the humans who wander through its bleak grandeur, connecting and separating. Big Sky country is her Los Alamos for testing the limits of human behaviour.
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