false 1627 0743271327 9780743271325 2576 265 Brokeback Mountain http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158292401m/1627.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1627.Brokeback_Mountain 1262010 Annie Proulx 24286 2522 5 0 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 09:59:58 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 10:02:58 -0700 2009 I started reading Close Range, the first of three collections of Wyoming stories written by Annie Proulx. I have had this book for several years and am just now getting around to reading it.

Close Range consists of the following collection of short stories:

The Half-Skinned Steer
The Mud Below
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

I started with Brokeback Mountain, a poignant, completely believable story of forbidden love. I haven't see the movie yet, and hope I am not disappointed by it when I get around to renting it.

I have already read and thoroughly enjoyed Annie Proulx's second collection of Wyoming Stories entitled "Bad Dirt." I don't think it really matters the order in which one reads these collections of stories since there don't appear to be any "repeat" characters in all these beautifully written stories.

In my reading queue and in my possession is the third collection of stories in this series, "Fine Just the Way It Is."

It will be a lovely series of summer reading.]]>