{"product_id":"stories-new-and-selected","title":"Stories: New and Selected","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eStories: New and Selected\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAnnie Proulx\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781668243206\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eScribner\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2026\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e416\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith a new introduction by Colm Toibin \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFrom one of the greatest story writers of our time, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, two O. Henry Prizes, and the celebrated author of \u003ci\u003eBrokeback Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e, comes a collection that includes three new stories and the most iconic stories of Annie Proulx's stunning, decades-long career.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnnie Proulx's \"gritty and gleaming stories\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) are about loneliness, violence, desperation, and the wrong kinds of love. In \"The Mud Below,\" a rodeo rider's obsession marks the deepening fissures between his family life and self-imposed isolation. In \"The Half-Skinned Steer,\" an elderly fool drives west to the range he grew up on for his brother's funeral and dies a mile from home. In the masterpiece, \"Brokeback Mountain,\" the difficult affair between two cowboys survives everything but the world's intolerance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese are stories of hard times, and unlikely elation, set in a landscape both brutal and magnificent. Enlivened by folk talks, flights of fancy, and details of ranch and rural work, they juxtapose Wyoming's traditional character and attitudes--confrontation of tough problems, prejudice, persistence in the face of difficulty--with the more benign values of the new west.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Stories: New and Selected | Annie Proulx | Hardcover | 9781668243206 | New | Fiction 1767387","offer_id":51021548945666,"sku":"1767387","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71FVH7tMgtL.jpg?v=1794323047","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/stories-new-and-selected","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}