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Annie Proulx

    August 22, 1935

    Annie Proulx's writing deeply explores themes of survival and resilience within harsh environments. Her distinctive style is characterized by its immersive atmosphere, emphasizing the profound connection between people and the natural landscape. Through her narratives, she delves into the complexities of human relationships and the inner fortitude of characters facing adversity. Her prose often captures the wild beauty and unforgiving nature of the world around us.

    Annie Proulx
    The shipping news
    Heart Songs
    Close range
    Brokeback Mountain, Film Tie-In
    Bad Dirt
    Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay
    • 2023

      Moorland

      Plädoyer für eine gefährdete Landschaft

      Pulitzer-Preisträgerin Annie Proulx über die Schönheit und Gefährdung eines einzigartigen Ökosystems. - »Bestes Buch des Jahres.« The New Yorker Pulitzer-Preisträgerin und passionierte Umweltschützerin Annie Proulx erzählt von der Schönheit und Magie der Moorlandschaften – und von der Gefährdung dieses unterschätzten, aber einzigartigen Ökosystems. Sie begibt sich auf eine faszinierende Reise in die Torfmoore Englands, in die endlos weiten Feuchtgebiete an der kanadischen Hudson Bay, die schwarzen Wasser der sibirischen Wassjuganje und in die heißen Sümpfe Floridas. »Moorland« ist ein mitreißend erzähltes, leidenschaftliches Plädoyer für den Kampf gegen den Klimawandel. »Ein bestechend schönes, kluges Buch, das Ihnen die Augen öffnen wird.« The Telegraph

      Moorland
    • 2022

      '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 found something amazing - on every page' Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See

      Fen, Bog and Swamp
    • 2016

      LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 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 world's forests.

      Barkskins
    • 2011

      Annie Proulx, one of America's finest writers, invites us to share her experience in the building of her new home on a rich plot of untouched, unspoilt prairie and her pleasure in uncovering of the layers of American history locked beneath the topsoil.

      Bird Cloud
    • 2008

      Fine Just the Way It Is

      • 240 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      3.7(93)Add rating

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

      Fine Just the Way It Is
    • 2005

      Brokeback Mountain, Film Tie-In

      • 64 pages
      • 3 hours of reading
      4.0(39182)Add rating

      The friendship between Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two cowboys, evolves into an intimate relationship while they are working together as a herder and camp tender, sharing a bond that spans many years and frequent separations.

      Brokeback Mountain, Film Tie-In
    • 2005

      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.

      Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay
    • 2004

      Bad Dirt

      Wyoming Stories 2

      • 241 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      4.0(3371)Add rating

      "The stories in Annie Proulx's new collection are peopled by characters who struggle with circumstances beyond their control in a kind of rural noir half-light. Trouble comes at them from unexpected angles, and they will themselves through it, hardheaded and resourceful. Bound by the land and by custom, they inhabit worlds that are often isolated, dangerous, and in Proulx's prose, vivid." In "What Kind of Furniture Would Jesus Pick?" rancher Gilbert Wolfscale, alienated from his sons, bewildered by his criminal ex-wife, gets shoved down his throat the fact that the old-style ranch life has gone. Several stories concern the eccentric denizens of Elk Tooth, a tiny hamlet where life revolves around three bars. Elk Toothers enter beard-growing contests, scrape together a living hauling hay, catch poachers in unorthodox ways. "Man Crawling Out of Trees" is about urban newcomers from the east and their discovery, too late, that one of them has violated the deepest ethics of the place. Above all, these stories are about the lives of rapidly disappearing rural Americans.

      Bad Dirt
    • 2002

      That Old Ace in the Hole

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      3.8(9522)Add rating

      Folks in the Texas panhandle do not like hog farms. But Bob Dollar is determined to see his new job as hog site scout for Global Pork Rind through to the end. However he is forced to face the idiosyncratic inhabitants of Woolybucket and to question his own notions of loyalty and home.A brilliant novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Proulx, author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain. That Old Ace in the Hole is a richly textured story of one man's struggle to make good in the inhospitable ranch country of the Texas panhandle, told with razor-sharp wit and a masterly sense of place.

      That Old Ace in the Hole