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Adobe DRM
Product Details
Scribner, December 2007
eBook, 224 pages
ISBN-10: 1416588906
ISBN-13: 9781416588900
Description
Before she wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx was already producing some of the finest short fiction in the country. Here are her collected stories, including two new works never before anthologized.
These stories reverberate with rural tradition, the rites of nature, and the rituals of small-town life. The country is blue-collar New England; the characters are native families and the dispossessed working class, whose heritage is challenged by the neorural bourgeoisie from the city; and the themes are as elemental as the landscape: revenge, malice, greed, passion. Told with skill and profundity and crafted by a master storyteller, these are lean, tough tales of an extraordinary place and its people.
Elaine Kendall
Los Angeles Times
Proulx doesn't merely tell her stories or participate in them, but convinces you with every word....You'd have every right to expect that a Hemingway disciple wrote these remarkable stories about life in the Northeastern granite country.
Kenneth Rose
The New York Times Book Review
Compelling...their sometimes enigmatic, often lyrical images seem to complement New England's lavish but barren beauty.
Wendy Smith
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Proulx beautifully evokes the unchanging rhythms of country existence with a deep appreciation for life lived close to the earth....Her prose is supple, strong, and filled with striking images.
Los Angeles Times, August 31, 2009
...the music of a novel remains entirely imagined, it can have even more power. The title story of Annie Proulx's collection "Heart Songs and Other Stories," documents a musician's obsession with the elusive, unknowable qualities of a musical ...
Annie Proulx's Books
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Bird CloudPart autobiography, part natural history, Bird Cloud is the glorious story of Annie Proulx's piece of the Wyoming landscape and her home there.Read More
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The Shipping NewsWhen Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just desserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland...Read More
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That Old Ace in the HoleFrom Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx comes That Old Ace in the Hole, an exhilarating story brimming with language, history,...Read More -
Accordion CrimesE. Annie Proulx's Accordion Crimes is a masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. Proulx brings the immigrant experience in...Read More
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Brokeback MountainWINNER OF THE VENICE FILM FESTIVAL GOLDEN LION AWARD Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in...Read More
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Brokeback Mountain: Story to ScreenplayAnnie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers,...Read More
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Fine Just the Way It IsThe dazzling and acclaimed final installment of the Wyoming Stories from National Book Award-winner Annie Proulx.Read More
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Close RangeAnnie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong...Read More
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