Broadside with Excerpt from "People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water," Close Range: Wyoming Stories (The Evil Companions Literary Award 2001)
. 2001. Matthews, William. Signed Copy. Broadside. Near Fine. Item #2282660
Signed by Annie Proulx and William Matthews. A very nice copy.
11 x 17 inches. The Evil Companions Literary Award, 2001. An excerpt from her story "People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water," from the collection "Close Range." Reproduces the frontispiece from the book by William Matthews. "You stand there, braced. Cloud shadows race over the buff rock stacks as a projected film, casting a queasy, mottled ground rash. The air hisses and it is no local breeze but the great harsh sweep of wind from the turning of the earth. The wild country – indigo jags of mountain, grassy plain everlasting, tumbled stones like fallen cities, the flaring roll of sky – provokes a spiritual shudder. It is like a deep note that cannot be heard but is felt, it is like a claw in the gut."
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