- Social life and customs, Fiction, Manners and customs, American fiction
Pioneer homesteaders facing drought and debt give way to modern-day hippies trying to lose themselves in the vanishing wilderness and real estate developers out to make a buck-unforgettable characters in nine stories that range in tone from crude cowboy humor to heartbreaking American tragedy.
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Classical in form, prestige, earnest and character-led.
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Annie Proulx
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Scribner, HarperCollins Publishers Australia, Rebis
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English, French, Polish
- ISBN
- 9781408421659
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Edna Ann Proulx is an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. She has written most frequently as Annie Proulx but has also used the names E. Annie Proulx and E.A. Proulx. She won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her first novel, Postcards, making her the first woman to receive the prize. Her second novel, The Shipping News (1993), won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and was adapted as a 2001 film of the same name. Her short story "Brokeback Mountain" was adapted as an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award-winning motion picture released in 2005.
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