New Releases by Annie Proulx

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes one of the most celebrated short story collections of our time. Annie Proulx''s masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love. In "The Mud Below," a rodeo rider''s obsession marks the deepening fissures between his family life and self-imposed isolation. In "The Half-Skinned Steer," an elderly fool drives west to the ranch he grew up on for his brother''s funeral, and dies a mile from home. In "Brokeback Mountain," the difficult affair between two cowboys survives everything but the world''s violent intolerance. These are stories of desperation, hard times, and unlikely elation, set in a landscape both brutal and magnificent. Enlivened by folk tales, flights of fancy, and details of ranch and rural work, they juxtapose Wyoming''s traditional character and attitudes—confrontation of tough problems, prejudice, persistence in the face of difficulty—with the more benign values of the new west. Stories in Close Range have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper''s, and GQ. They have been selected for the O. Henry Stories 1998 and The Best American Short Stories of the Century and have won the National Magazine Award for Fiction. This is work by an author writing at the peak of her craft.

From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx comes an exhilarating story brimming with language, history, landscape, music, and love. Bob Dollar is a young man from Denver trying to make good in a bad world. Out of college and aimless, Dollar takes a job with Global Pork Rind, scouting out big spreads of land that can be converted to hog farms. Soon he''s holed up in a two-bit Texas town called Woolybucket, where he settles into LaVon Fronk''s old bunkhouse for fifty dollars a month, helps out at Cy Frease''s Old Dog Café, and learns the hard way how vigorously the old Texas ranch owners will hold on to their land, even when their children want no part of it. Robust, often bawdy, strikingly original, That Old Ace in the Hole traces the waves of change that have shaped the American West over the past century—and in Bob Dollar, Proulx has created one of the most irrepressible characters in contemporary fiction.

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Proulx brings the immigrant experience to life in this stunning novel that traces the ownership of a simple green accordion. E. Annie Proulx’s Accordion Crimes is a masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. Proulx brings the immigrant experience in America to life through the eyes of the descendants of Mexicans, Poles, Africans, Irish-Scots, Franco-Canadians and many others, all linked by their successive ownership of a simple green accordion. The music they make is their last link with the past—voice for their fantasies, sorrows and exuberance. Proulx’s prodigious knowledge, unforgettable characters and radiant language make Accordion Crimes a stunning novel, exhilarating in its scope and originality.

Watercolor paintings of the landscape and people of the West interspersed with a narration by Annie Proulx of Matthews'' life and work with insight into both the ranching life and the art-making life.

Dans le Vermont, vers 1944, Loyal Blood cache sa fiancée, morte les " bas tirebouchonnés ", dans l''ancienne tanière d''un renard, et s''enfuit de la ferme familiale. Pour lui, c''est le début d''une pénible odyssée à travers l''Amérique qui finira dans les années quatre-vingt. Dans un décor gigantesque et démentiel, à côté duquel la nature humaine semble bien petite, Annie Proulx décline une multitude de scènes réalistes, puisées au cœur même de la vie. Ouvrier, mineur ou trappeur au fil de ses errances, Blood envoie des cartes postales sans jamais donner d''adresse. En fait, il habite sa terrible faute. Jusqu''à sa mort, il sera maudit. Cartes Postales est le premier roman de l''auteur désormais mondialement célèbre de Brokeback Mountain.

Recounts myths of the closing decades of the western frontier viewed through the eyes of Nellie Courtright and her brother Jackson, orphans that make good in the town of Rita Blanca in what would become the Oklahoma Panhandle.

A la fin du XIXe siècle, un Sicilien débarque à La Nouvelle-Orléans, accompagné de son fils et d''un magnifique accordéon de sa fabrication. Passant de main en main, l''instrument devient le héros du livre. Il accompagne les aventures et tribulations des émigrants du melting-pot: Allemands du Middle West, Polonais de Chicago, Norvégiens du Minnesota... Tous ces humbles, ces miséreux de l''Europe gagnés par le rêve du Nouveau Monde, et dont les descendants, oubliant peu à peu leurs racines, forment l''Amérique d''aujourd''hui, sont les personnages d''un roman-fleuve grandiose comme une épopée. Lauréate du National Book Award et du prix Pulitzer, traduite dans une trentaine de pays, Annie Proulx nous conte l''Amérique réelle avec une vigueur et une puissance dignes de Steinbeck ou de Dos Passos.

Livet er rått og hardt, landskapet er stort og åpent i Annie Proulx'' noveller. Ranchliv, cowboyliv og rodeoliv står i fokus - fjernt fra idyll og fjernt fra all westernromantikk. Her er fortellinger om ensomhet, brå vold, barsk humor og kjærlighet på avveier og bar bakke, og samlingen inneholder også fortellingen bak filmen "Brokeback Mountain". Annie Proulx har mottatt en rekke litterære priser, bl.a. Pulitzer-prisen.

Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, Brokeback Mountain is her masterpiece. Brokeback Mountain was originally published in The New Yorker. It won the National Magazine Award. It also won an O. Henry Prize. Included in this volume is Annie Proulx''s haunting story about the difficult, dangerous love affair between a ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy. Also included is the celebrated screenplay for the major motion picture "Brokeback Mountain," written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. All three writers have contributed essays on the process of adapting this critically acclaimed story for film.

Annie Proulx follows the success of ''Close Range'' with this collection of short stories set in Wyoming.

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 Robert Frost saluted his favorite beverage with a poem titled ?In A Glass of Cider.? Neck and neck with brewing beer at home is the resurgence of making cider. Whether sweet, hard, blended, or sparkling, trend watchers say cider, once the preferred beverage of early America, could very well become the drink of the future. (Hard cider is the fastest growing segment of the beverage industry.) Keeping pace with the commercial cider producers are small-scale and individual cider makers who have discovered how easy it is to make their own. After all, the only ingredient you need is an apple. In this updated edition of Cider, Annie Proulx and Lew Nichols take you step-by-step through the process that renders fruit into a refreshing drink. In addition to learning about the equipment you?ll need to make a glorious cider, Proulx and Nichols also discuss the pros and cons of various types of apple presses ? from traditional heavy grinders to sleek hydraulic presses. You?ll also learn about the glass bottles vs. wooden barrels debate; how to filter, fine, and rack your cider; and where and how to store it. Proulx and Nichols provide detailed recipes for making six types of cider: still, sparkling, champagne, barrel, French, and flavored, with advice on which apples to use to achieve a tart, aromatic, astringent, or neutral quality in your cider. In fact, this book is brimming with expert advice on cidermaking. If you want to plant your own apple orchard, this book has an entire chapter that lists which cultivars of apples thrive in which parts of the United States and Canada, along with each cultivar?s characteristics and when it is ready for harvesting. Another chapter explains how to care for an orchard, from improving the soil to pruning and thinning the trees to fighting off pests and wildlife. Once a cidermaker has learned how to make excellent cider, he or she is likely to look for further fields t o explore. With that in mind, the authors include a chapter on making cider vinegars and brandy and using cider in cooking. Finally, Proulx and Nichols walk you through the latest federal regulations covering the production and sale of homemade cider in the United States and Canada, and they familiarize you with the kind of impact state and provincial laws can make.The clear, simple language, numerous illustrations, and detailed step-by-step directions make it easy for even novices to become skilled cidermakers. This revised edition of the classic handbook is a complete guide for anyone who wants to discover the pleasure of making ? and drinking ? fresh cider.

"Contundentes... [Unos relatos] que hay que leer por su rigurosa autenticidad y su lenguaje, irónica poesía de la soledad y el dolor." The New York Times "La geografía, espléndida y terrible, es la deidad tutelar de los personajes de En terreno vedado. Sus vidas son una vana lucha contra los elementos que se desarrolla como incontrolable caída en picado. Proulx escribe sobre ellos con una prosa violenta, impactante y controlada hasta el punto de llegar al borde del precipicio y estar a punto de despeñarse." Richard Eder, The New York Times Book Review "La pluma de Proulx tiene la brutal belleza de una ventisca de Wyoming." Michael Knight, The Wall Street Journal "Relatos valientes y sólidos de amores, dolores y resignación para sufrir las consecuencias. Nadie escribe así, y Proulx nunca ha escrito mejor." Kirkus Reviews Ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y autora de obras con gran éxito de público como Atando cabos y Los crímenes del acordeón, Annie Proulx nos ofrece ahora una de las mejores colecciones de relatos de nuestros tiempos. La maestría con que Proulx domina el lenguaje y su impetuoso amor por las tierras de Wyoming brillan en estos soberbios relatos transitados por la soledad, la violencia desatada y los amores de género equívoco. Cada uno de los deslumbrantes retratos de En terreno vedado revela a unos personajes forjados a golpes de precisión y elegancia. Son éstas historias de desesperación y extraños entusiasmos, situadas en un paisaje desolado y majestuoso... de la pluma de una autora en el mejor momento de su carrera. Annie Proulx es la prestigiosa autora de la colección de relatos Canciones del corazón y de tres novelas: Postales, Atandos cabos y Los crímenes del acordeón. Sus obras se han traducido a veinte idiomas. Ganadora del Premio Pulitzer, del National Book Award, el Premio Internacional de Narrativa del Irish Times y el Premio de Narrativa PEN/Faulkner, vive y escribe en Wyoming.

Quoyle est un journaleux malchanceux et désespéré qui vit et travaille près de New York. Après la mort de sa femme, une jolie garce qui n''a cessé de le tromper, il met le cap sur Terre-Neuve, le pays de ses ancêtres. Avec ses deux filles à moitié délinquantes et une vieille tante à la remorque, Quoyle se retrouve au bout du monde, journaliste pour un canard local dans un univers dur, où tout semble ballotté par les vagues et secoué par le vent. Nœuds et dénouement est une comédie irrésistible, passionnante, sur la vie et ses possibles. Plus d''un million d''américains ont aimé ce livre, et il a été traduit dans quatorze langues.

The story of a well-meaning fugitive-at-large provides a glimpse of America''s past as it follows Loyal Blood from his home in Vermont, where he mistakenly commits a heinous crime, to the coast of California

Tras quedar viudo, un periodista de tercera sin futuro ni esperanza deja Nueva York y parte hacia Terranova, el remoto lugar de sus antepasados.

Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters return to the family ancestral home in Newfoundland to start new lives.

The arts of flyfishing and storytelling come together in a collection featuring short stories or sections of novels by Tom McGuane, Nick Lyons, E. Annie Proulx, Robert Jones, Jim Enger, David Seybold, Sydney Lea, Mallory Burton and other fine writers who love to fish with flies.

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