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Fine Just the Way It Is is a 2008 collection of short stories by Annie Proulx. [2] [3] [4] Stories. Family Man. The story is set in a Wyoming "Old Folks' Home" for old cowboys, ranchers and their womenfolk. Old cow-poke Ray Forkenbrock has skeletons in his closet he must talk about before he dies. [5] . The past is inescapable.
Sep 9, 2008 · Fine Just the Way it Is. Annie Proulx. 3.82. 2,845 ratings443 reviews. Generations struggle in the American frontier West.
Pioneer homesteaders facing drought and debt give way to modern-day hippies trying to lose themselves in the vanishing wilderness and real estate developers out to make a buck - unforgettable characters in nine stories that range in tone from crude cowboy humour to heartbreaking American tragedy
After a host of seemingly unrelated anecdotes and an encounter with a woman from his past who disappears as suddenly as she arrived, Ray finally reveals a family...
Fine Just the Way It Is by Annie Proulx - The 8193rd greatest book of all time. "Fine Just the Way It Is" is a collection of nine short stories that explore the harsh and often brutal realities of life in Wyoming.
Book Summary. "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.
'Fine Just The Way It Is' returns to the familiar cast of the hardy, unsentimental prairie folk that made up the Wyoming stories of 'Bad Dirt' and 'Close...
