Fine Just The Way It Is
Wyoming Stories 3
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Narrated by:
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Will Patton
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By:
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Annie Proulx
About this listen
2009 Audie Award Finalist for Short Stories/Collections
Returning to the territory of "Brokeback Mountain" (in her first volume of Wyoming Stories) and Bad Dirt, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx delivers a stunning and visceral new collection. In Fine Just the Way It Is, she has expanded the limits of the form. Her stories about multiple generations of Americans struggling through life in the West are a ferocious, dazzling panorama of American folly and fate.
"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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- Eamon
- 25-01-25
Fantastic book
A brilliant book Very interesting and engaging
I enjoyed every single word.
Such lovely stories
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- lucyb
- 07-07-24
Each story pulls you into that world
Thought provoking listening sensitively telling stories of peoples fears, isolation and deepest thoughts. Beautifully told.
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- Amazon Customer
- 16-10-23
Great writing and great narrator
A different but somehow familiar world. Real life, real people, just getting on with it. Annie Proulx is a divine wordsmith. I read (listened) to this book in two particular modes: firstly on a long train journey; and then various dog walks. As with any absorbing book the power of the narrative makes your reading circumstance irrelevant.
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- Mark Goldberg
- 20-06-23
Brilliant writing and terrific narration
Loved it. Listened twice. Brilliant writing and descriptive powers, and terrific narration. Highly recommend to everyone who loves
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