ANNIE PROULX

Fine Just the Way It Is

FOURTH ESTATE • London

Copyright

First published in Great Britain in 2008 by Fourth Estate

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Originally published in the United States in 2008 by Scribner

Copyright © Dead Line, Ltd 2008

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Source ISBN 9780007269730

Ebook Edition © NOVEMBER 2008 ISBN:9780007287857

Version 2016-06-13

For Muffy & Geoff

Jon & Gail

Gillis

Morgan

Contents

Copyright |
Family Man |
I’ve Always Loved This Place |
Them Old Cowboy Songs |
The Sagebrush Kid |
The Great Divide |
Deep-Blood-Greasy-Bowl |
Swamp Mischief |
Testimony of the Donkey |
Tits-Up in a Ditch |
About the Author |
Also by Annie Proulx |
About the Publisher |

On the surface, everything was lovely, but when you got into the inside circle you soon found out that the lines of demarcation were plainly marked.

—John Clay, My Life on the Range

Fine Just the Way It Is

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