From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of <I>The Shipping News</I> and <I>Accordion Crimes</I> comes one of the most celebrated short-story collections of our time. <P> Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in these breathtaking tales of loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love. Each of the stunning portraits in <I>Close Range</I> reveals characters fiercely wrought with precision and grace. <P> These are stories of desperation and unlikely elation, set in a landscape both stark and magnificent -- by an author writing at the peak of her craft.