L'écriture d'Annie Proulx explore en profondeur les thèmes de la survie et de la résilience dans des environnements hostiles. Son style distinctif se caractérise par une atmosphère immersive, soulignant le lien profond entre les personnes et le paysage naturel. À travers ses récits, elle aborde les complexités des relations humaines et la force intérieure des personnages confrontés à l'adversité. Sa prose capture souvent la beauté sauvage et la nature impitoyable du monde qui nous entoure.
Quoyle, qui a démarré dans la vie comme un perdant, écrit des articles pour un journal minable. Il épouse Petal, mais elle se tue avec son amant dans un accident de voiture. Que faire quand on a 35 ans, qu'on est veuf, qu'on a deux enfants et qu'on fait une grosse déprime?
On connaît l’attachement d’Annie Proulx pour les populations rurales d’Amérique du Nord, particulièrement celles du Wyoming. Prises au piège de leur propre destin, victimes des caprices de la nature, elles se sentent impuissantes, mais à leur résignation se mêle toujours l’orgueil, une fierté qui ne veut pas s’avouer vaincue. Ces cow-boys à peine sortis de l’adolescence et déjà burinés par la vie, ces femmes des ranches pleines d’abnégation et de rudesse continuent de clamer : « C’est très bien comme ça ! » Avec une rare puissance d’évocation, empreinte de tendresse, de violence et d’humour, Annie Proulx fait revivre les paysages et les personnages de cette Amérique mythique. Deux recueils de nouvelles d’Annie Proulx ont déjà été publiés par Le Livre de Poche : Nouvelles histoires du Wyoming et Les Pieds dans la boue. Annie Proulx sait comme personne suggérer les journées chaudes sans un souffle de vent ou la fumée des feux de forêt de l’automne. Un art classique, fait de nostalgie et d’innocence perdue. Jacques-Pierre Amette, Le Point.
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.
"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.
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.
From the author of The Shipping News comes a collection of short stories inspired by the harsh and unforgiving landscape of Wyoming. Throughout, 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. And in ‘ Brokeback Mountain ’, Proulx changes gear once again to describe the unexpected love that flowers between two cowboys as they struggle with the elements in some extremely inhospitable terrain. Inventive, compassionate and wildly funny, these marvellous stories explore the unbreakable bond between a people and their land, and will delight Proulx's fans everywhere. Contents: - The Half-Skinned Steer - The Mud Below - Job History - The Blood Bay - People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water - The Bunchgrass Edge of the World - Pair a Spurs - A Lonely Coast - The Governors of Wyoming - 55 Miles to the Gas Pump - Brokeback Mountain
The preeminent short fiction series since 1915, The Best American Short Stories is the only annual that offers the finest works chosen by a distinguished best-selling guest editor. This year, E. Annie Proulx's selection includes dazzling stories by Tobias Wolff, Donald Hall, Cynthia Ozick, Robert Stone, Junot Diaz, and T. C. Boyle as well as an array of stunning new talent. In her introduction, Proulx writes that beyond their strength and vigor, these stories achieve "a certain intangible feel for the depth of human experience, not uncommonly expressed through a kind of dry humor." As ever, this year's volume surprises and rewards. 100 Distinguished Stories Citations, including How to Have Heart Disease (Without Really Trying), Jane Eaton Hamilton
A highly acclaimed collection of short stories set in the great outdoors of New England, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News' and Brokeback Mountain'.
Quoyle is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just deserts and he retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast.
A compilation of twenty American short stories originally published in magazines and periodicals issued between January 2001 and January 2002, selected for inclusion by guest editor Sue Miller.
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.
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'One of the greatest American writers' Independent From Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and "Brokeback Mountain," comes a masterwork: an epic, dramatic novel about the destruction of the world's forests. In the late seventeenth century, two penniless Frenchmen, Ren� Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France, bound to a seigneur for three years in exchange for land, becoming wood-cutters—barkskins. Ren� endures immense hardship, oppressed by the forest he must clear, and is forced to marry a Mi'kmaw woman, leading to descendants caught between two cultures. In contrast, Duquet, crafty and ruthless, escapes the seigneur, becomes a fur trader, and establishes a timber business. Proulx weaves the stories of Sel and Duquet's descendants over three centuries, detailing their journeys across North America, Europe, China, and New Zealand amid brutal conditions, rivalries, accidents, and cultural annihilation. They exploit what seems an infinite resource, leaving modern characters confronting potential ecological collapse. Proulx's genius lies in her vivid characters—greedy, lustful, vengeful, or compassionate—drawing readers in with fierce attention. This novel is a magnificent blend of history and imagination, showcasing Proulx as one of America's most formidable writers.
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.
'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
A tale of immigrants centered on an accordion brought to America in the 1880s. After its Italian owner is murdered, the instrument passes into the hands of other ethnic groups--German, French-Canadian, Mexican, Polish, Norwegian--and the novel describes their ceremonies, dreams and hates. By the author of The Shipping News
The tale of the Blood family, New England farmers who must confront the twentieth century--and their own extinction
Als de hoofdpersoon, een fervent jager, in het Chopping-district komt wonen, stuit hij bij zijn jacht naar korhoenders toevallig op een verlaten en halfverwoeste boerderij: Steenstad. Op datzelfde ogenblik staat hij oog in oog met Banger. Banger is een afstotelijke vijftiger, die alleen om zijn uitmuntende talent als jager en kenner van het jachtgebied door iedereen wordt gerespecteerd. Banger ontwijkt vragen over Steenstad. Toch krijgt de hoofdpersoon beetje bij beetje het gruwelijke verhaal over Steenstad en zijn bewoners te horen. Een verhaal dat sterk verbonden blijkt met Bangers leven.
Сборник рассказов Энни Прул, лауреата Пулицеровской премии (1994), автора романа "Корабельные новости" (2005), - это история непростой жизни обитателей северного штата Вайоминг. Каждый из них доказывает свое право на жизнь. Один из рассказов, "Горбатая гора", лег в основу сценария оскаровского блокбастера известного режиссера Энга Ли. Содержание Бык с ободранной шкурой (переводчик: Е. Шраги) Рассказ c. 11-37 Грязь под ногами (переводчик: Е. Копосова) Рассказ c. 38-91 История его карьеры (переводчик: Т. Гутман) Рассказ c. 92-101 Кровожадный конь (переводчик: В. Михайлюк) Рассказ c. 102-106 Грешники в аду мечтают о глотке воды (переводчик: В. Михайлюк) Рассказ c. 107-130 На обочине мира (переводчик: В. Михайлюк) Рассказ c. 131-160 Шпоры с кометами (переводчик: Валерий Шубинский) Рассказ c. 161-209 Одинокий берег (переводчик: Вероника Капустина) Рассказ c. 210-235 Губернаторы Вайоминга (переводчик: А. Степанов) Рассказ c. 236-285 Пятьдесят пять миль до заправки (переводчик: Н. Кузовлева) Рассказ c. 286-287 Горбатая гора (переводчик: Н. Кузовлева) Рассказ c. 288-333
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
Een lelijke, onhandige man probeert na de dood van zijn vrouw met zijn twee dochters en een excentrieke tante een nieuw leven op te bouwen in Newfoundland, het land waar zijn grootouders vandaan komen.
Een oude accordeon is eigendom geweest van allerlei immigranten, die met hun cultuur en muziek langzaam aan opgaan in de Amerikaanse smeltkroes.
