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Fine Just the Way It Is

Returning to the territory of "Brokeback Mountain" (in her first volume of Wyoming Stories) and Bad Dirt (her second), National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx delivers a stunning and visceral new collection. In Fine Just the Way It Is "Every ranch ... had lost a boy," thinks Dakotah Hicks as she drives through "the hammered red landscape" of Wyoming, "boys smiling, sure in their risks, healthy, tipped out of the current of life by liquor and acceleration, rodeo smashups, bad horses, deep irrigation ditches, high trestles, tractor rollovers and 'unloaded' guns. Her boy, too ... The trip along this road was a roll call of grief." Proulx's characters try to climb out of poverty and desperation but get cut down as if the land itself wanted their blood. Deeply sympathetic to the men and women fighting to survive in this harsh place, Proulx turns their lives into fiction with the power of myth -- and leaves the reader in awe. The winner of two O. Henry Prizes, Annie Proulx has been anthologized in nearly every major collection of great American stories. Her bold, inimitable language, her exhilarating eye for detail and her dark sense of humor make this a profoundly compelling collection.

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  • "Fine just the way it is"@pl
  • "Wioming stories"
  • "Fine Just the Way It Is"@it

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  • "Returning to the territory of "Brokeback Mountain" (in her first volume of Wyoming Stories) and Bad Dirt (her second), National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx delivers a stunning and visceral new collection. In Fine Just the Way It Is "Every ranch ... had lost a boy," thinks Dakotah Hicks as she drives through "the hammered red landscape" of Wyoming, "boys smiling, sure in their risks, healthy, tipped out of the current of life by liquor and acceleration, rodeo smashups, bad horses, deep irrigation ditches, high trestles, tractor rollovers and 'unloaded' guns. Her boy, too ... The trip along this road was a roll call of grief." Proulx's characters try to climb out of poverty and desperation but get cut down as if the land itself wanted their blood. Deeply sympathetic to the men and women fighting to survive in this harsh place, Proulx turns their lives into fiction with the power of myth -- and leaves the reader in awe. The winner of two O. Henry Prizes, Annie Proulx has been anthologized in nearly every major collection of great American stories. Her bold, inimitable language, her exhilarating eye for detail and her dark sense of humor make this a profoundly compelling collection."@en
  • "Pioneer homesteaders facing drought and debt give way to modern-day hippies trying to lose themselves in the vanishing wilderness and real estate developers out to make a buck-unforgettable characters in nine stories that range in tone from crude cowboy humor to heartbreaking American tragedy."
  • "Pioneer homesteaders facing drought and debt give way to modern-day hippies trying to lose themselves in the vanishing wilderness and real estate developers out to make a buck-unforgettable characters in nine stories that range in tone from crude cowboy humor to heartbreaking American tragedy."@en
  • "'Fine Just The Way It Is' marks Proulx's return to the Wyoming of Brokeback Mountain & the familiar cast of hardy prairie folk. The stories are cast over centuries, & capture the voices & lives of the settlers this weatherworn country has known."@en
  • "Family man - I've always loved this place - Them old cowboy songs - The sagebrush kid - The great divide - Deep-blood-greasy -bowl - Swamp mischief - testimony of the donkey - Tits-up in a ditch."
  • "Pioneer homesteaders facing drought and debt give way to modern-day hippies trying to lose themselves in the vanishing wilderness, in nine stories that range in tone from crude cowboy humor to heartbreaking American tragedy."
  • "Pioneer homesteaders facing drought and debt give way to modern-day hippies trying to lose themselves in the vanishing wilderness and real estate developers out to make a buck: unforgettable characters in nine stories that range in tone from crude cowboy humor to heartbreaking American tragedy."

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  • "Americké povídky"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Short Stories"
  • "American short stories"
  • "Verhalen (teksten)"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Large print books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Short stories"
  • "Short stories"@en
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl

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  • "Fine just the way it is : [Wyoming stories]"
  • "Fine just the way it is : Wyoming stories"
  • "Fine Just the Way It Is"@en
  • "Fine Just The Way It Is"@en
  • "Näin on hyvä"
  • "Dobrze jest, jak jest"
  • "Fine Just the Way It Is Wyoming Stories 3"@en
  • "Dobrze jest, jak jest"@pl
  • "Fine just the way it is"@en
  • "Fine just the way it is"
  • "Fine just the way it is : Wyoming stories 3"@en
  • "Fine just the way it is : Wyoming stories 3"
  • "Fine just the way it is / Wyoming stories 3"@en
  • "Ho sempre amato questo posto : storie del Wyoming"@it
  • "Fine just the way it is Wyoming stories 3"
  • "Ho sempre amato questo posto : storie del Wyoming"
  • "Fine the way it is"@en
  • "Fine just the way it is Wyoming stories"
  • "Goed zoals het is"
  • "Takhle je to dobrý : povídky z Wyomingu"

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