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Tell Me a Story: Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx

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Dear Readers, How are you?  I hope you have been enjoying your weekend!  I hope you have been reading LOL!   I have kept my goal of sharing with you short story collections that I admire.  I am in love with short stories!  I came out with my own collection, Peter's Moonlight Photography and Other Stories , a few years ago.  I think why I love the short story format so much would make a good future post :) This collection is by the author, Annie Proulx, a major contemporary author.  She is an American author who published this collection in 1999.  One of the stories in the collection, Brokeback Mountain, was made into a movie years later which you may have seen.  As a side note-- I love to read the story behind a film when it comes out to see what changes were made. As a huge nature lover, I was drawn to the setting-- rural Wyoming.  Annie lived in Wyoming at one point in her life.   I consider the style of this collection realistic fiction.  I was debating whether it would be more