Annie Proulx
Brokeback Mountain: Now a Major Motion Picture
By: Annie Proulx
The friendship between Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two cowboys, gradually evolves into an intimate relationship while they are working together as a herder and camp tender and living a remote cabin, sharing a bond that spans many years and frequent...
Published: Nov 2005
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Pages: 55
Close Range : Wyoming Stories
By: Annie Proulx
With the very first sentence of the first story in this remarkable collection, Annie Proulx demonstrates what makes her great: images sharp as paper cuts conveyed in language so imaginative and compressed it's just this side of poetry; a sense of...
Published: Feb 2000
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Pages: 285
The Shipping News
By: Annie Proulx
In this touching and atmospheric novel set among the fishermen of Newfoundland, Proulx tells the story of Quoyle. From all outward appearances, Quoyle has gone through his first 36 years on earth as a big schlump of a loser. He's not attractive, he's...
Published: Jun 1994
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 337
Postcards
By: Annie Proulx
From the bestselling author of The Shipping News comes Postcards, the tale of the Blood family, New England farmers who must confront the twentieth century -- and their own extinction. As the family slowly disintegrates, its members struggle...
Published: Aug 1994
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 320
That Old Ace in the Hole
By: Annie Proulx
Bob Dollar is a reluctant land swindler. When the 25-year-old protagonist in Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole signs on as a location scout for Global Pork Rind, an industrial hog farming corporation, he has no idea what kind of moral...
Published: Sep 2003
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 288
Accordion Crimes
By: Annie Proulx
...'Accordion Crimes' is by no means a depressing book. Instead it seems properly clear-eyed, even shrewd with peasant wisdom....We must, it seems, find pleasure where we can, while we can--in food, in drink, love, music, stories. All these, of...
Published: Jun 1997
Genre: Fiction - General
Pages: 432
Cider: Making, Using, & Enjoying Sweet & Hard Cider
By: Annie Proulx
The Pilgrims drank cider as they sailed to America aboard the Mayflower. John Adams had a tankard of cider every morning at breakfast. After a long day on safari, Ernest Hemingway liked to kick back beside the campfire with a glass of cider. And...
Published: Jun 2003
Genre: Cooking - Beverages
Pages: 219
Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3
By: Annie Proulx
Returning to the territory of 'Brokeback Mountain' (in her first volume of Wyoming Stories) and Bad Dirt (her second), National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx delivers a stunning and visceral new collection. In Fine Just the Way It...
Published: Sep 2009
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Pages: 240
Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place
By: Annie Proulx
"Bird Cloud" is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four-hundred-foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening...
Published: Oct 2011
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Literary
Pages: 256
