Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, "The Shipping News" is a celebration of Annie Proulx's genius for storytelling and her vigorous contribution to the art of the novel.
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Annie Proulx's highly acclaimed, international best-seller and Pulitzer prize-winner is a comedy of human life and possibility.
"Bark Skins open in New France in the late 18th century as Rene Sel, an illiterate woodsman makes his way from Northern France to the homeland to seek a living. Bound to a "seigneur" for three years in exchange for land, he suffers extraordinary hardship and violence, always in a...
After tragedy strikes, Quoyle moves with his daughter from upstate New York to his ancestral home in a small Newfoundland fishing village.
"A lifelong environmentalist, Annie Proulx brings her wide-ranging research and scholarship to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important yet little understood role they play in preserving the environment--by storing the carbon emissions that greatly contribute to climate ...
"Bark Skins open in New France in the late 18th century as Rene Sel, an illiterate woodsman makes his way from Northern France to the homeland to seek a living. Bound to a "seigneur" for three years in exchange for land, he suffers extraordinary hardship and violence, always in a...
A sweeping story set in the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma. A young man sent to the Texas town of Woolybucket to find land for a commercial hog farm encounters more than he bargained for.
It's 1963, a time in the United States when life was simple, straightforward and the lines between the sexes and sex roles were crisply drawn and severely delineated. Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist find themselves thrown together when they are hired to tend sheep in the remote area...
Late in the 1800s, a Sicilian craftsman painstakingly designs and builds an exquisite musical instrument that will be his ticket to success in America. As the family prepares to leave on their trip, paralysis incapacitates the man's wife, who must be left behind, but determinatio...
"Barkskins opens in New France in the late 18th century as Rene Sel, an illiterate woodsman makes his way from Northern France to the homeland to seek a living. Bound to a "seigneur" for three years in exchange for land, he suffers extraordinary hardship and violence, always in a...
"Bird Cloud" is the name the author 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 sky. She also saw pelicans, bald eagles, go...
In Annie Proulx's third installment of Wyoming Stories, she presents a collection of works focused on American generational struggles in the West.
Beginning in 1890 Sicily and spanning a century, follows an accordian maker's finest button accordion from Sicily to New Orleans and beyond.
Phil and George are brothers, more than partners, joint owners of the biggest ranch in their Montana valley. Phil is the bright one, George the plodder. Phil is tall and angular. George is stocky and silent. Phil is a brilliant chess player, a voracious reader, an eloquent storyt...
"A lifelong environmentalist, Annie Proulx brings her wide-ranging research and scholarship to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important yet little understood role they play in preserving the environment--by storing the carbon emissions that greatly contribute to climate ...