{"product_id":"the-lost-frontier-mark-asquith-9781623568191","title":"The Lost Frontier: Reading Annie Proulx's Wyoming Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnnie Proulx is one of the most provocative and stylistically innovative writers in America today. She is at her best in the short story format, and the best of these are to be found in her Wyoming trilogy, in which she turns her eye on America's West--both past and present. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYet despite the vast amount of print expended reviewing her books, there has been nothing published on the \u003ci\u003eWyoming Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. The Lost Frontier fills this critical void by offering a detailed examination of the key stories in the trilogy: \u003ci\u003eClose Range \u003c\/i\u003e(1999), \u003ci\u003eBad Dirt\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), \u003ci\u003eFine Just the Way it Is \u003c\/i\u003e(2008). The chapters are arranged according to western archetypes--the Pioneer, Rancher, Cowboy, Indian, and, arguably, the most important character of them all in Proulx's fiction: Landscape.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Lost Frontier offers students a clear sense of the novelist's early life and work, her stylistic influences and the characteristics of her fiction and an understanding of where the \u003ci\u003eWyoming Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and Annie Proulx's work as a whole, fits into traditional and contemporary writing about the American West.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Asquith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1623568196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781623568191\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/19\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d","brand":"Mark Asquith","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48485684510975,"sku":"9781623568191","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c9cfa375-96e0-411c-8d80-9b2abb9e7bdb.jpg?v=1778050880","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-lost-frontier-mark-asquith-9781623568191","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}