- Social life and customs, Frontier and pioneer life, Wyoming in fiction, Fiction
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.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Annie Proulx
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 296
- Publisher
- Siglo XXI, Brand: HarperPerennial, Zondervan
- Editions
- 33
- Language
- Italian, Spanish, French, Russian
- ISBN
- 9783630870397
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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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