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Barkskins

Annie Proulx

From Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain, comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about the taking down of the…

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Fen, Bog and Swamp

Annie Proulx

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
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'Remarkable ... A compact classic!' Bill McKibben
'I learned something new - and found something amazing - on every page'…

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Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place

Annie Proulx

Bird Cloud is the name Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and 400-foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. Her first work of nonfiction…

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Rites of Passage: Introduced by Annie Proulx

William Golding

Introduced by Annie Proulx. lose yourself in an epic naval journey in this Booker Prize-winning novel: the first in the acclaimed Sea Trilogy by the author of Lord of the…

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Close Range: Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories

Annie Proulx

The inspiration behind “Life of Pi’ director Ang Lee’s "Brokeback Mountain’ is one of the short stories to be found in this haunting collection of Wyoming tales.

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The Power of the Dog: NOW AN OSCAR AND BAFTA WINNING FILM STARRING BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Thomas Savage

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…

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The Power of the Dog: NOW AN OSCAR AND BAFTA WINNING FILM STARRING BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Thomas Savage

Discover Thomas Savage’s dark poetic tale of a small town in early 20th century American that inspired the new Jane Campion film. Phil and George are brothers and joint owners…

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Fen, Bog & Swamp

Annie Proulx

From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx--whose novels are infused with her knowledge and deep concern for the earth--comes a riveting, revelatory history of our wetlands, their ecological role, and what…

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Close Range: Wyoming Stories

Annie Proulx

From one of the great writers of our time comes a collection of award-winning stories about loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love. The pieces have appeared in…

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The Shipping News

Annie Proulx

Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed…

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Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

Annie Proulx

From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx - whose novels are infused with her knowledge and deep concern for the earth - comes a riveting, revelatory history of our wetlands, their…

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Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and its Role in the Climate Crisis

Annie Proulx

‘A subject that could not be more important. A compact classic!’ Bill McKibben ‘A moving elegy and cri de coeur for our world’s wetlands. I learned something new - and…

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Close Range: Wyoming Stories

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From one of the great writers of our time comes a collection of award-winning stories about loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love. Her masterful language and vast…

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That Old Ace in the Hole

Annie Proulx

Proulx’s fourth novel is told through the eyes of Bob Dollar, a young Denver man trying to make good in a bad world. Robust, often bawdy, strikingly original and intimate…

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Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2

Annie Proulx

From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx comes a stellar collection of short stories set in Wyoming.

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Barkskins

Annie Proulx

In the late seventeenth century, two illiterate woodsmen, Renae Sel and Charles Duquet, make their way from Northern France to New France to seek a living. Bound to a feudal…

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Barkskins

Annie Proulx

In the late seventeenth century, two illiterate woodsmen, Renae Sel and Charles Duquet, make their way from Northern France to New France to seek a living. Bound to a feudal…

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Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3

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 Proulx delivers a stunning and…

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Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3

Annie Proulx

The fantastic new collection of stories from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘The Shipping News’ and ‘Brokeback Mountain’.

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Heart Songs and Other Stories

Annie Proulx

The acclaimed debut collection of short stories–enhanced by two never-before-published works–by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News.

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Postcards

Annie Proulx

This is story of Loyal Blood, a man who spends a lifetime on the run from a crime so terrible that it renders him forever incapable of touching a woman.

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Brokeback Mountain: Now a Major Motion Picture

Annie Proulx

Two handsomely produced editions of this award-winning story coincide with the release of the major independent film directed by Ang Lee and starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger.

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Accordion Crimes

Annie Proulx

A novel set in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Sicily and America, in which an accordion maker and his son travel to New Orleans carrying little more than a…

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Fen, Bog and Swamp

Annie Proulx

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Literary Hub! A Finalist for the 2022 NBCC Awards in Nonfiction, the 2023 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing…

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That Old Ace in the Hole

Annie Proulx

The story of one man’s struggle to make good in the inhospitable ranch country of the Texas panhandle.

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Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2

Annie Proulx

A remarkable collection of short stories set in Wyoming from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘The Shipping News’ and ‘Brokeback Mountain’.

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The Shipping News

Annie Proulx

A novel of human life and possibility in which one man, following the dramatic death of his wife, heads for the remotest part of Newfoundland, along with his ‘aunt’ and…

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Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News: A Reader’s Guide

Aliki Varvogli

This work is part of the Continuum Contemporaries series giving readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential contemporary novels. It contains…

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The Geographical Imagination of Annie Proulx: Rethinking Regionalism

This edited collection focuses on Annie Proulx’s striking attention to geography, place, landscape, and local environments. Contributors consider Proulx’s particular landscapes_particularly those of Wyoming, New England, Texas, and Newfoundland_and the…

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The Geographical Imagination of Annie Proulx: Rethinking Regionalism

This edited collection focuses on Annie Proulx’s striking attention to geography, place, landscape, and local environments. Contributors consider Proulx’s particular landscapes_particularly those of Wyoming, New England, Texas, and Newfoundland_and the…

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A Study Guide for Annie Proulx’s Brokeback Mountain

Cengage Learning Gale

A Study Guide for Annie Proulx’s Brokeback Mountain, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…

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A Study Guide for Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News

Cengage Learning Gale

A Study Guide for Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…

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Les crimes de l'accordeon

Annie Proulx

A la fin du xixe siecle, un Sicilien debarque a La Nouvelle-Orleans, accompagne de son fils et d'un magnifique accordeon de sa fabrication. Passant de main en main, l'instrument devient…

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Accordion Crimes

Annie Proulx

Divided into nine sections and spanning a century and a continent, this novel illuminates the lives of the founders of a nation, descendants of Mexicans, Poles, Germans, the Irish, Scots…

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The Shipping News

Annie Proulx

Winner of the Irish Times International Fiction Award and America’s National Book Award, this story features Quoyle, a failed journalist, a failed husband and a born loser who heads for…

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The Lost Frontier: Reading Annie Proulx’s Wyoming Stories

Dr Mark Asquith (Independent Scholar, UK)

Annie Proulx is one of the most provocative and stylistically innovative writers in America today. She is at her best in the short story format, and the best of these…

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The Lost Frontier: Reading Annie Proulx’s Wyoming Stories

Dr Mark Asquith (Independent Scholar, UK)

Annie Proulx is one of the most provocative and stylistically innovative writers in America today. She is at her best in the short story format, and the best of these…

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A Study Guide for E. Annie Proulx’s The Half-Skinned Steer

Cengage Learning Gale

A Study Guide for E. Annie Proulx’s The Half-Skinned Steer, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…

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Barkskins

Annie Proulx

In the late seventeenth century, two illiterate woodsmen, Renae Sel and Charles Duquet, make their way from Northern France to New France to seek a living. Bound to a feudal…

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Cider

Annie Proulx,Lew Nichols

Annie Proulx, the novelist, first wrote this guide to making cider in 1980. It is a comprehensive, illustrated overview of the process and includes recipes for using the finished product…

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Seasons: Desert Sketches

Ellen Meloy

Twenty-five never-before-published essays by National Book Critic Circle Award finalist Ellen Meloy, full of her signature wit, charm, and illuminations of human connection to nature.

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Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

Annie Proulx

From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx - whose novels are infused with her knowledge and deep concern for the earth - comes a riveting, revelatory history of our wetlands, their…

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The Power of the Dog

Thomas Savage

Originally written in 1967 and set in 1920s Montana, this … domestic drama tells the story of two brothers–and of the woman and young boy, mother and son, whose arrival…

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The Photographs of Carl Mydans: The Library of Congress

Annie Proulx

Presents 50 striking images by an individual photographer from the Library of Congress’ renowned collection of photographs.

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Postcards

Annie E. Proulx

Here is the critically acclaimed first novel by the bestselling author of The Shipping News. Postcards is the story of the Blood family, New England farmers who must grudgingly face…

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A Jury Of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx

Elaine Showalter

* Elaine Showalter, author of the classic A LITERATURE OF THEIR OWN has written ‘The first comprehensive overview of the achievement of American women writers … A daunting task, and…

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