| 词条 | Fine Just the Way It Is |
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| name = Fine Just the Way It Is | title_orig = | translator = | image = FourthEstate 2008 AnnieProulx FineJusttheWayItIs.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = First edition cover | author = Annie Proulx | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | subject = | genre = Short stories | publisher = 4th Estate | release_date = 14 September 2008[1] | media_type = Print (paperback); (hardback) | pages = 240 pp | isbn = 978-0-00-726973-0 | isbn_note = (first edition) | dewey = | congress = | oclc = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }}Fine Just the Way It Is is a 2008 collection of short stories by Annie Proulx.[2][3][4] Stories{{Expand section|date=August 2010}}Family ManThe 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. Mid-way through relating his early life to his granddaughter, Forkenbrock realizes that one of his fellow residents is the woman he first had sex with 71 years before; a day later that same woman falls to her death in the Grand Canyon.[6] Forkenbrock had discovered, at his father's funeral, that he was not his father's only son called Ray. He was in fact one of four: his father had four families, the children all named the same to avoid mistakes.[7] I've Always Loved This PlaceSatan's personal assistant, one Duane Fork, busies himself spreading dust and sulfurous smells for his boss's return from a Milan design fair.[8] The Devil is piqued by an article in The Onion reporting that a Tenth Circle of Hell had been added to accommodate Total Bastards. Them Old Cowboy SongsRose and Archie are a young married couple —Archie is only 16 — setting out to make a life for themselves. At first, things are idyllic: they are very much in love. But then Archie gets laid off from the ranch where he has been working and heads to Cheyenne to find a job, leaving Rose behind in their cabin with a baby on the way. He has to hide that he is married because the tyrant he works for would fire him if he knew, since married men tend to want time off to go visit their wives. He tries to write a letter to Rose but doesn’t have the money for a stamp. Meanwhile, Rose is alone and miserable. There are complications with her pregnancy, and no way for her to get help. She finally buries the baby. Archie, after a fall in a bog, comes down with pneumonia and cannot work, so his boss fires him. Another hand tries to help Archie get home but they get caught in a blizzard and freeze to death. In the spring, a friend of Archie and Rose comes by and finds her mutilated body. The Sagebrush KidA childless Wyoming couple transfer their affections first to a piglet, then to a chicken, and finally to a sagebrush they fancy to have the appearance of a child.[5] It is tended and protected, and even fed bones and stray scraps of meat from their dinner-table. Even after the couples' passing, the shrub - now grown to the height of a fair-sized tree - is used to human attention, and meat. It consumes livestock, then soldiers, then a local medico, railroad men, surveyors, and most lately a botanist come to investigate its unusual height and luxuriance.[2] Deep-Blood-Greasy-Bowl{{Empty section|date=January 2011}}Swamp Mischief{{Empty section|date=January 2011}}Testimony of the Donkey{{Empty section|date=January 2011}}Tits-Up in a ditch{{Empty section|date=January 2011}}Critical receptionDelia Falconer described the stories as a "patchy collection, much less satisfying than Close Range".[3] The stories set in Hell have also been criticized as—while being witty and well-written—ill-fitted to a book of Wyoming stories.[5]Relation to other short story collectionsWriting in The New York Times, Ron Carlson described the collection as "a third collection of Wyoming stories", following Close Range and Bad Dirt.[2] References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.borders.com.au/book/fine-just-the-way-it-is/3875/|title=Fine Just The Way It Is synopsis|publisher=Borders Group|accessdate=3 April 2010}} 2. ^1 2 {{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/books/review/Carlson-t.html|title=True Grit|last=Ron Carlson|date=7 September 2008|publisher=New York Times|accessdate=16 January 2010}} 3. ^1 {{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/books/book-reviews/fine-just-the-way-it-is/2008/10/13/1223749917539.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1|title=Annie Proulx's latest Wyoming stories seem a bit tired in the telling, writes Delia Falconer.|last=Delia Falconer|date=13 October 2008|publisher=The Age|accessdate=16 January 2010}} 4. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/fictionreviews/3560009/Review-Fine-Just-the-Way-It-Is-by-Annie-Proulx.html|title=Review: Fine Just the Way It Is by Annie Proulx|last=Lucy Beresford|date=12 September 2008|publisher=The Daily Telegraph|accessdate=16 January 2010}} 5. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2009/2452573.htm#TRANSCRIPT|title=Fine Just the Way It Is: Annie Proulx (review)|last=Maunder|first=Patricia|date=21 January 2009|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|accessdate=27 March 2010}} 6. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/fine-just-the-way-it-is-by-annie-proulx-926482.html|title=Fine Just The Way It Is, by Annie Proulx|last=Bland|first=Archie|date=12 September 2008|publisher=The Independent|accessdate=3 April 2010}} 7. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/sep/14/fiction1|title=Wyoming is hell on earth|last=Adams|first=Tim|date=14 September 2008|publisher=The Guardian|accessdate=3 April 2010}} 8. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/fictionreviews/3560441/Review-Fine-Just-the-Way-It-Is-by-Annie-Proulx.html|title=Review: Fine Just the Way It Is by Annie Proulx|last=Leith|first=Sam|date=12 September 2008 |publisher=The Daily Telegraph|accessdate=27 March 2010}} External links
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