Close Range: Brokeback Mountain and other stories. Annie Proulx
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Название: Close Range: Brokeback Mountain and other stories

Автор: Annie Proulx

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Вестерны

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isbn: 9780007368815

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      ANNIE PROULX

       Close Range:Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories

       Copyright

      Fourth Estate

      An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street, London SE1 9GF

       www.4thestate.co.uk

      This edition published 2010

      First published in Great Britain as Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Fourth Estate in 1999

      Copyright © Dead Line, Ltd. 1999

      ‘Brokeback Mountain’, ‘The Mud Below’, ‘The Blood Bay’ and ‘The Bunchgrass Edge of the World’ originally appeared in The New Yorker; ‘The Half-Skinned Steer’ appeared in The Atlantic; ‘People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water’ appeared in GQ.

      Annie Proulx asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Ebook Edition © MAY 2012 ISBN 9780007368815

      Version 2016-06-13

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       Dedication

      These stories are for my children

      Muffy

      Jon

      Gillis

      Morgan

       Epigraph

      “Reality’s never been of much use out here.”

      —Retired Wyoming rancher

       Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Job History

       The Blood Bay

       People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water

       The Bunchgrass Edge of the World

       Pair a Spurs

       A Lonely Coast

       The Governors of Wyoming

       55 Miles to the Gas Pump

       Brokeback Mountain

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       Also by Annie Proulx

       Praise

       About the Publisher

       The Half-Skinned Steer

      IN THE LONG UNFURLING OF HIS LIFE, FROM TIGHT-wound kid hustler in a wool suit riding the train out of Cheyenne to geriatric limper in this spooled-out year, Mero had kicked down thoughts of the place where he began, a so-called ranch on strange ground at the south hinge of the Big Horns. He’d got himself СКАЧАТЬ