Close range : Wyoming stories
(Audiobook CD)

Compact disc.

Read by Francis [sic] Fisher, Bruce Greenwood and Campbell Scott.

A collection of stories set in Wyoming about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love. In "The Mud Below, " a rodeo rider's obsession marks the deepening fissures between his family life and self-imposed isolation. In "The Half-Skinned Steer, " an elderly fool drives west to the ranch he grew up on for his brother's funeral, and dies a mile from home. In "Brokeback Mountain, " the difficult affair between two cowboys survives everything but the world's violent intolerance. These are stories of desperation, hard times, and unlikely elation, set in a landscape both brutal and magnificent. Enlivened by folk tales, flights of fancy, and details of ranch and rural work, they juxtapose Wyoming's traditional character and attitudes -- confrontation of tough problems, prejudice, persistence in the face of difficulty -- with the more benign values of the new west--Publisher's description.

AUDIOBOOK CD