The Half-Skinned Deer by Annie Proulx is the first story in the collection Close Range: Wyoming Stories, which was shortlisted for The Pulitzer Prize, won by the author for the remarkable The Shipping News, adapted for the big screen

 

The Half-Skinned Deer by Annie Proulx is the first story in the collection Close Range: Wyoming Stories, which was shortlisted for The Pulitzer Prize, won by the author for the remarkable The Shipping News, adapted for the big screen

 

 

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The Shipping News https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/11/the-shipping-news-by-annie-proulx-won.html won the Pulitzer Prize for Annie Proulx, for which Close Range: Wyoming Stories was shortlisted, and I have finished the story of Quoyle recently, in fact, it was the second time, plus, I have seen the motion picture

 

In some ways, I have identified with Quoyle, when he was quite spineless, pathetic, he may have been like I am, these days, when the firm is not making money, I have to pay for the Uber my daughter is using in Amsterdam, I told her the financial situation is dire, and she felt her parent is a loser, he (I) should get a job…

Alright, but just so that she travels with a driver, while I cycle in Bucharest? Back to Annie Proulx, for the moment, she has had a major success in Brokeback Mountain https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/02/brokeback-mountain-by-annie-proulx.html which is in fact part of Close Range

 

In Half Skinned Deer, we have some intriguing happenings, this senior gentleman receives the news that his brother is dead, and he will attend the funeral, but he will drive the more than one thousand miles (was it that much, I wonder) because he does not want to fly, he had been on a flight that was caught in a…

Hail storm, and I forgot what the description was, notwithstanding this, the feeling is that this sandwich of an airplane was made with Swiss cheese, you know, the one with holes on it – so our hero takes his Cadillac along https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/02/on-road-by-jack-kerouac-is-one-of.html On The Road

 

Alas, he gets into a collision with some trailer (I think it was) then the next vehicle hits him, and the one after that, we do not have a plie up, but the old man has some blood on his clothes, the airbag is pushed out, and then…he buys another Cadillac, the one he drove is now smashed, the replacement is second hand

from the psychology classic The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz we find that there are two categories of human beings, Satisfizers and Maximizers, and our protagonist may belong to the former https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-paradox-of-choice-by-barry-schwartz_30.html the vehicle he has now is not that good

 

he used to have leather, now he only has velour, anyway, the story of the Half-Skinned Deer is much more relevant, and terrifying: this animal gets, well, Half Skinned, the rancher gets in to have his supper, with the tied steer outside, and when he gets back…it is gone, and then he sees a creature with half of it hanging…

 

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