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Proulx, Edna Annie was born on August 22, 1935 in Norwich, Connecticut, United States. Daughter of George Napolean and Lois Nellie (Gill) Proulx.
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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. Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer. Both men work hard, marry, and have kids because that's what cowboys do. But over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes the most important thing in their lives, and they do anything they can to preserve it. The New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for Fiction for its publication of "Brokeback Mountain," and the story was included in Prize Stories 1998: The O. Henry Awards. In gorgeous and haunting prose, Proulx limns the difficult, dangerous affair between two cowboys that survives everything but the world's violent intolerance.
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In neun neuen Geschichten erzählt Annie Proulx von den Mythen und Menschen Wyomings – lakonischer, böser und witziger denn je Wyoming, dieser am dünnsten besiedelte aller nordamerikanischen Staaten, ist Annie Proulx’ Revier. Und sie schreibt über diese unwirtliche, bizarr-schöne Gegend wie niemand sonst, voller Sympathie und Ironie. Erinnerungen eines alten Mannes an seine Zeit als Rodeoreiter enthüllen familiäre Abgründe; eine große tragische Liebesgeschichte aus dem ausgehenden neunzehnten Jahrhundert zerreißt einem schier das Herz; bitterböse Satiren schauen dem Teufel und seinem Sekretär bei der Arbeit zu; Legenden erzählen von der Zeit, als die Indianer noch allein in den Bergen und Prärien lebten, ganz anders als heute, da Millionäre, Grundstücksmakler, moderne Hippies und sture Farmer ihr Glück im Land der Pioniere suchen.
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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 these breathtaking tales of loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love. Each of the stunning portraits in Close Range reveals characters fiercely wrought with precision and grace. These are stories of desperation and unlikely elation, set in a landscape both stark and magnificent -- by an author writing at the peak of her craft.
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(On behalf of his employer, Global Pork Rind, Bob Dollar t...)
On behalf of his employer, Global Pork Rind, Bob Dollar travels to the Texas panhandle town of Wooly bucket in search of land suitable for hog farms. He meets with some resistance from the eccentric collection of locals, who have different ideas about the fate of their lands. It was a New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
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(Before she wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Th...)
Before she wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx was already producing some of the finest short fiction in the country. Here are her collected stories, including two new works never before anthologized. 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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Bob Dollar, a young Denver man trying to make good in a bad world, is out of college but aimless, and he takes a job with Global Pork Rind, where his task is to locate big spreads of land in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles that can be purchased by the c Title: Un As En La Manga / That Old Ace in the Hole Author: Proulx, Annie/ Heriz, Enrique De (TRN) Publisher: Publication Date: 2005/12/30 Number of Pages: 375 Binding Type: PAPERBACK Library of Congress: oc2008059964
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(From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Shipping N...)
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Shipping News' comes a collection of short stories inspired by the harsh and unforgiving landscape of Wyoming. Throughout the collection, Annie Proulx invests these stories with an intelligence and black humour that transforms them into something new and surprising. In one story, a slight young man defies his mother's insults to become a rodeo star, while in another, an octogenarian finds himself drawn back to the ranch that he quit decades before - against his better judgement. Elsewhere, Proulx demonstrates her taste for the macabre in a grisly tale of bad weather, gambling and amputation set a hundred years ago. Inventive, compassionate and wildly funny, these marvellous stories explore the unbreakable bond between a people and their land.
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(Im Herzen von Amerika, wo die schmalen Ausläufer, die pan...)
Im Herzen von Amerika, wo die schmalen Ausläufer, die panhandles, von Texas und Oklahoma aufeinanderstoßen, lag einst der »Wilde Westen« mit seinen riesigen Ranches und Viehherden. Inzwischen wandern die Leute ab, die für die Landschaft typischen Windräder fördern kaum noch Wasser, und die trockene Steppe breitet sich immer weiter aus. Hierher verschlägt es Bob Dollar, einen jungen Mann aus Denver, der nichts Rechtes mit seinem Leben anzufangen weiß und nach ein paar Gelegenheitsjobs bei Global Pork Rind anheuert: Im Panhandle-Gebiet soll er nach Land für Schweinemastbetriebe suchen und die Besitzer zum Verkauf überreden. Er läßt sich in Woolybucket nieder, einem kleinen texanischen Ort voll sturer und schrulliger Hinterwäldler. Im Old Dog Café hört er Geschichten von Tornados, eisigen Winden und Sandstürmen, von Hahnenkämpfen und Rodeoshows, von Familienfehden und Liebschaften, aber vor allem vom Niedergang der Prärie. Und ebenjene Schweinefarmen, für die er arbeitet, sind zum großen Teil daran schuld. Allmählich versteht Bob Dollar, der mit sieben Jahren von seinen Eltern verlassen wurde, was diese Menschen mit ihrem Land verbindet, und zum erstenmal in seinem Leben sieht er eine Zukunft vor sich. Ein modernes Märchen, die Geschichte eines Hans-im-Glück, der in einer bösen Welt nur Gutes will - mit Annie Proulx' Sprachgewalt, ihrem scharfen Blick fürs allzu Menschliche und ihren atemberaubenden Landschaftsbeschreibungen wird daraus ein großer Roman über das heutige Amerika, wie wir es kaum kennen.
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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.
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(A remarkable collection of short stories set in Wyoming f...)
A remarkable collection of short stories set in Wyoming from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Shipping News' and 'Brokeback Mountain'. 'Bad Dirt' is filled with the vivid and willful characters for which Proulx has become known. Each occupies a community or landscape described in rich and robust language, with an eye for detail unparalleled in American fiction. In 'The Contest', the men of Elk Tooth, Wyoming, vow to put aside their razors for two seasons and wait to see who has the longest beard come the 4th of July. Deb Sipple, the moving protagonist of 'That Trickle Down Effect', finds that his opportunism -- and his smoking habit -- lead to a massive destruction. And 'What Kind of Furniture Would Jesus Pick?' is the story of Gilbert Wolfscale, whose rabid devotion to his ranch drives off his wife and sons. Proulx displays her wit in every story of this stunning collection, as well as her knowledge of the West, of history, of ranching and farming. Her profound sympathy for characters who must use sheer will and courage to make it in tough territory makes this collection extraordinarily compelling.
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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 in cooking. Proulx and Lew Nichols also discuss apple presses, glass bottles versus wooden barrels and storage.
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Now in trade paperback from National Book award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx—an "unforgettable" (Miami Herald) and "vivid" (O, The Oprah Magazine) collection of stories set in Wyoming. Winner of two O. Henry Prizes, Annie Proulx has been anthologized in nearly every major collection of great American stories. Her bold, inimitable language, her exhilarating eye for detail, her dark sense of humor, and her compassion inform this profoundly compelling collection of stories. Proulx creates a fierce, visceral panorama of American folly and fate in these nine dazzling stories about multiple generations of Americans struggling through life in the West. Each character is a pioneer of a sort—some are billionaires, some are escapists, and some just think the rest of the country has it wrong. Deeply sympathetic to the men and women fighting to survive in this harsh place, Proulx turns their lives into fiction with the power of myth, leaving the reader in awe.  Â
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(Accordion Crimes opens in 1890 in Sicily as an accordion ...)
Accordion Crimes opens in 1890 in Sicily as an accordion maker completes his finest instrument - nineteen polished bone buttons, sleek lacquer - and dreams of owning a music store in America. He and his eleven-year-old son, carrying little more than the green 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 into another community of immigrants, the German Americans, founding a town in Iowa. Again, the accordion is witness to an astonishing array of tales as Beutle, Messermacher, Loats and their families make and lose fortunes in the new land. The little green accordion falls into the hands of various immigrants who carry it from Iowa to Texas, from Maine to Louisiana, looking for a decent life. Descendants of Mexicans, Africans, Poles, Germans, Norwegians, Irish, Basques and Franco-Canadians, they work their way into a harshly racist American culture at the cost of their identity, language and traditions. The music of the accordion 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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(Annie Proulx's new collection is peopled by characters wh...)
Annie Proulx's new collection is peopled by characters who struggle with circumstances beyond their control. Born to ranching, drawn to it, or desperate to get out, they inhabit worlds that are isolated and often dangerous. Trouble comes at them from unexpected angles, and they drive themselves through it, hardheaded and resourceful. No one writes better than Proulx about the American west and about lives that may no longer be viable. This is a stunning collection by one of the most vivid and exhilarating writers of our time.
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Make your own cider! Annie Proulx and Lew Nichols take you step-by-step through the cidermaking process, covering everything from the various types of apple presses to how to filter, fine, rack, and store your cider. They also provide recipes for making six types of cider---still, sparkling, champagne, barrel, French, and flavored---and advise you on which apples to use to achieve particular flavor qualities. There is even a chapter on making cider vinegars and brandy and using cider in your cooking. Finally, Proulx and Nichols show you how to grow and maintain your own home apple orchard and build your own cidermaking equipment.
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Proulx, Edna Annie was born on August 22, 1935 in Norwich, Connecticut, United States. Daughter of George Napolean and Lois Nellie (Gill) Proulx.
Bachelor in History, cum laude, University Vermont, 1969. Master of Arts, Sir George Williams University, Montreal, Canada, 1973. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Maine, 1994.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Toronto, 2000. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Concordia University, Montreal, 2002.
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( Make your own cider! Annie Proulx and Lew Nichols take ...)
(Now in trade paperback from National Book award- and Puli...)
(Accordion Crimes opens in 1890 in Sicily as an accordion ...)
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(Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and br...)
(Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and br...)
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(From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of...)
(From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Shipping N...)
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(A remarkable collection of short stories set in Wyoming f...)
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Member of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association American Center, Phi Alpha Theta, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married H. Ridgely Bullock, Junior (divorced). Married James Hamilton Lang, June 22, 1969 (divorced 1990). Children: Sylvia Marion, Jonathan Edward, Gillis Crowell, Morgan Hamilton.