Название: Close Range: Brokeback Mountain and other stories
Автор: Annie Proulx
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Вестерны
isbn: 9780007368815
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ANNIE PROULX
Close Range:Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories
Fourth Estate
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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
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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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These stories are for my children
Muffy
Jon
Gillis
Morgan
“Reality’s never been of much use out here.”
—Retired Wyoming rancher
Contents
People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water
The Bunchgrass Edge of the World
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