Annie Proulx has her home up for sale in Wyoming. Nobody in the state can probably afford it though:
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Annie Proulx, whose stories about Wyoming include Brokeback Mountain, is selling her home in the town of Centennial. Her real estate agent says the Pulitzer Prize-winning author has bought a ranch elsewhere in the Cowboy State.
James Rinehart of Western United Realty LLC in Laramie has the listing. He said his firm specializes in ranch properties.
"Annie's home is kind of a specialty niche market. We don't normally sell homes, but this one is a unique enough one that we're happy to work on it," he said.
Rinehart said his agency sold Proulx her replacement property. "It's a ranch in southeastern Wyoming," he said, but declined to give details. "She's going to stay in Wyoming, she's just choosing to relocate right now."
The ad on Rinehart's website says the 3,500-square-foot "Aspen Country Retreat" sits on a 2-acre lot and has three bedrooms and three baths.
"This wonderful mountain home is the perfect year around home or weekender," the ad says, listing the price as $700,000. Rinehart confirmed the property is Proulx's.
Proulx's home in Centennial, about 20 miles west of Laramie, was recently advertised for sale in High Country News, a newspaper about western environmental issues.
Brokeback Mountain was originally published in The New Yorker in 1997 and then included in Proulx's collection Close Range: Wyoming Stories.
Ang Lee won a best director Oscar for his 2005 film based on the story.
