Bad Dirt Wyoming Stories 2 [Paperback]

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx returns with another stellar collection of short stories bound to be even more successful than her bestselling, critically acclaimedClose Range.

Annie Proulx’s new collection is peopled by characters who struggle with circumstances beyond their control. Born to ranching, drawn to it, or desperate to get out, they inhabit worlds that are isolated and often dangerous. Trouble comes at them from unexpected angles, and they drive themselves through it, hardheaded and resourceful. No one writes better than Proulx about the American west and about lives that may no longer be viable. This is a stunning collection by one of the most vivid and exhilarating writers of our time.Bad Dirt
Wyoming Stories 2
Annie Proulx
Introduction
In Elk Tooth everyone tries to be a character and with some success.
Annie Proulx's second collection ofWyoming Storiesshares the backbreaking, heartbreaking, and, sometimes, gut-busting stories of the rapidly disappearing rural Americans inBad Dirt:
The Indian Wars Refought follows a young Native American woman's discovery of a long lost Buffalo Bill film, found in a building owned by her white stepmother. Gilbert Wolfscale fights to hold onto the ranch that has been in his family for generations and, as a result, alienates his wife and sons in What Kind of Furniture Would Jesus Pick? And in Man Crawling Out of the Trees, an isolated couple from New York breaks the cardinal rule of the country-that you give aid and help to a stranger, even your bitterest enemy when he is down.
Ever resourceful, Elk Tooth residents create their own entertainment. A beard-growing competition grows out of boredom during the bitter winter months in The Contest ; Summer of the Hot Tubs chronicles the town's passing passion for building their own outdoor tubs and Willy Huson's creative attempt to heat things up; and The TlÃ*