{"product_id":"new-and-selected-stories-annie-proulx-9781668243206","title":"New and Selected Stories","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Annie Proulx\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1668243202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781668243206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Annie Proulx","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48483401564415,"sku":"9781668243206","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_31a2cd30-b651-4d9b-890d-9aac0fcc08c2.jpg?v=1778038570","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/new-and-selected-stories-annie-proulx-9781668243206","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}