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Works by
Annie Proulx
(E. Annie Proulx)
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Fiction
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Brokeback Mountain (Date?)
Follows two cowboys sheep-herders over twenty
years as they fall in love, go on to marry women, but never forget one
another. Slated to be released as a movie in 2005.
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The Best American Short Stories 1997, edited by Annie Proulxi
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Heart Songs and Other Stories (1988)
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.
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Postcards (1992) --
First women to ever win
Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Blood's odyssey begins in 1944 and takes him across the
country from his hardscrabble Vermont hill farm to New York, across
Ohio, Minnesota, and Montana to British Columbia, on to North Dakota,
Wyoming, and New Mexico and ends, today, in California, with Blood
homeless and near mad. Along the way, he must live a hundred lives to
survive, mining gold, growing beans, hunting fossils and trapping,
prospecting for uranium, and ranching. In his absence, disaster befalls
his family; greatest among their terrible losses are the hard-won values
of endurance and pride that were the legacy of farm people rooted in
generations of intimacy with soil, weather, plants, and seasons.
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The Shipping News
1993
-- Winner Pulitzer Prize
and the National Book Award
Focuses on a Newfoundland fishing town in a
tale about a third-rate newspaperman and the women in his life -- his
elderly aunt and two young daughters -- who decide to resettle in their
ancestral seaside home. The transformation each of the character
undergoes following move is profound.
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Accordion Crimes (1996)
Accordion Crimes opens in 1890 in Sicily as an
accordion maker completes his finest instrument and dreams of owning a
music store in America. He and his eleven-year-old son, carrying little
more than the accordion, voyage to the teeming, violent port of New
Orleans. Within a year, the accordion maker is murdered by an
anti-Italian lynching mob, but his instrument carries Proulx's story as
it falls into the hands of various immigrants who carry it from Iowa to
Texas, from Maine to Louisiana, looking for a decent life. The music is
their last link with the past -- voice for their fantasies, sorrows and
exuberance -- but it, too, is forced to change.
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Close Range: Wyoming Stories (1999)
Or buy
Audio Version
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That Old Ace in the Hole: A Novel (2002)
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Bad Dirt : Wyoming Stories 2
(2004)
The stories in Annie Proulx's new collection are
peopled by characters who struggle with circumstances beyond their
control in a kind of rural noir half-light. Trouble comes at them from
unexpected angles, and they will themselves through it, hardheaded and
resourceful. Bound by the land and by custom, they inhabit worlds that
are often isolated, dangerous, and in Proulx's bold prose, stunningly
vivid.
Nonfiction
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