Best of the Best. From the Pulitzer prize-winning author of "The Shipping News" comes a collection of some of her best short fiction, including "Breakback Mountain", about a deeply moving and unsettling love affair between two cowboys in a world that will not accommodate them; "The Half-Skinned Steer", the story of an old man who drives out to the ranch he grew up on for his brother's funeral; and "The Mud Below", in which a rodeo rider's isolation and obsession become symbolic of the deep fissures in family life and the ways in which our culture no longer tolerates loners.