New Releases by Annie Proulx

Storie del Wyoming / 3 Annie Proulx «Nessuno è felice come due giovani innamorati nella casetta che hanno costruito con le proprie mani in un luogo fatto di bellezza e solitudine», scrive Annie Proulx a proposito di una coppia di sposini che cerca di mettere dimora nella brulla prateria spazzata dal vento: di tanto in tanto, come nota il New York Times, nel mondo di Annie Proulx – un mondo in cui la furia degli elementi è letale, e gli uomini non sono molto meglio – si intravede un fugace scorcio del giardino dell'Eden. In questi nove racconti, spesso segnati da una tristezza ineluttabile, tutti i personaggi sono, in qualche modo, dei pionieri, che lottano disperatamente per conquistare un ritaglio di paradiso in una terra impietosa. Con la sua prosa composta e struggente, il suo sorprendente senso dell'umorismo e la sua incrollabile compassione, Proulx dipinge un panorama feroce e viscerale, brutale e magnifico, abitato da generazioni di americani che lottano disperatamente per sopravvivere in una terra difficile da amare, le cui vite, grazie al potere del mito, si trasformano in letteratura: vividi dettagli di vita rurale si mescolano a frammenti di folklore, la brutalità della cultura tradizionale si mescola ai tratti, appena addolciti, del West moderno e i piccoli eventi quotidiani si fondono in modo quasi operistico con il clima selvaggio. Pubblicato a dieci anni dal primo volume delle Storie del Wyoming – quello che conteneva il celebre «Brokeback Mountain» – Ho sempre amato questo posto aggiunge un nuovo tassello al monumentale affresco con il quale il Premio Pulitzer Annie Proulx ha riscritto il mito del Far West.

A Elk Tooth, minuscolo paesino sperduto in mezzo alla vasta prateria del Wyoming, la vita ruota quasi tutta intorno a tre bar, varianti neanche troppo moderne dei vecchi saloon. Ed è attraverso le chiacchiere al bancone che impariamo a conoscere una folla di personaggi degni dei migliori western: il guardacaccia che ha dichiarato guerra ai bracconieri, una giovane Sioux in possesso di rarissime pellicole di Buffalo Bill, la rancher che commissiona a un ubriacone il compito di recuperare un carico di prezioso fieno dall'altro capo del continente, la barista vegetariana alle prese con una mandria di vacche diaboliche, la coppia newyorkese destinata a scontrarsi con le dure leggi della campagna e con un clima che non conosce clemenza. Fra tassi parlanti e gare a chi ha la barba più lunga, dolorose riunioni familiari e jacuzzi ricavate da rottami, in un'alternanza di realismo magico e cruda quotidianità strappata con i denti a un ambiente ostile, Annie Proulx ci regala undici racconti spietati e al contempo irresistibilmente spassosi. Dopo l'acclamata raccolta Distanza ravvicinata – dal quale è stato tratto I segreti di Brokeback Mountain, vincitore di tre Oscar – Proulx torna a raccontare il suo Wyoming con un amore che traspare da ogni pagina e che non offuscano mai la lucidità di sguardo su quelle terre maestose e desolate e sui personaggi che le abitano.

Era il 1995 quando Annie Proulx, reduce dal grandissimo successo di Avviso ai naviganti culminato con il Premio Pulitzer, si stabilì nel Wyoming, attratta dalla maestosa ferocia dei paesaggi, tra praterie deserte e picchi scoscesi, tempeste di neve e una fauna selvaggia. Da allora quei territori, con le loro leggende e i loro personaggi – uomini e donne forgiati alla durezza della vita, pronti al compromesso e alla fatica ma anche a lasciarsi travolgere dalle ventate imprevedibili della passione – sono diventatila materia prima della sua scrittura, e il racconto la forma perfetta per narrarne le storie. Con Distanza ravvicinata, minimum fax dà il via alla pubblicazione integrale delle «Storie del Wyoming». In questa prima raccolta, valutata dalla critica come una delle vette della narrativa contemporanea, risalta già il delicato alternarsi di realismo e incanto, quieta disperazione e deflagrante poesia, del quale Annie Proulx ha saputo fare la propria cifra, e che ha nel magnifico «Brokeback Mountain», trasposto per il cinema da Ang Lee, un esempio insuperato.

Alla fine del diciassettesimo secolo due giovani francesi, René Sel e Charles Duquet, fuggono da una vita di stenti e sbarcano in Canada, allora chiamato Nuova Francia. Dopo avere firmato un contratto con un signore feudale, che li costringe a lavorare tre anni per lui prima di concedere loro un pezzo di terra, i due intraprendono la dura vita dei "pelle di corteccia", come venivano chiamati allora i taglialegna. René è costretto a sposare una donna indiana, e da quel giorno i loro discendenti vivranno intrappolati fra due culture, senza mai riuscire a elevarsi dalla condizione svantaggiata dei mezzosangue. Duquet invece riesce a scappare e diventa un cacciatore di pelli, ma ben presto si accorge dell'enorme potenziale economico delle foreste nordamericane e decide che lo scopo della sua vita sarà trovare il modo di sfruttarlo. Annie Proulx segue i discendenti di Sel e Duquet nel corso di tre secoli, accompagnandoli nei loro spostamenti dal Nord America all'Europa, dalla Cina alla Nuova Zelanda, in una lunga e avvincente storia di vendette, amori, incidenti, pestilenze e conflitti, in cui alla distruzione delle foreste si accompagna quella dei popoli che le abitano. Annie Proulx, dopo Avviso ai naviganti, con il quale ha vinto il premio Pulitzer, e I segreti di Brokeback Mountain, da cui è stato tratto l'omonimo film, ci consegna il suo capolavoro, il romanzo a cui ha lavorato per una vita intera. Pelle di corteccia è senza dubbio il coronamento dell'illustre carriera dell'autrice, ma forse anche il più grande romanzo ambientalista mai scritto finora.

Ennis en Jack zijn nog geen twintig als ze op de ruige hellingen van Brokeback Mountain een kudde schapen gaan hoeden. Die zomer worden ze verliefd op elkaar en die passie beklijft, ook als ieder later een eigen gezin sticht. In deze editie zijn ook de andere 'Wyomingverhalen' van Annie Proulx oegevoegd die eerder werden gebundeld in De gouverneurs van Wyoming.

Annie Proulxs erster Roman seit über zehn Jahren, das lang erwartete Meisterwerk der Pulitzerpreisträgerin: ein monumentales Epos, das lebensprall, sprachgewaltig und intensiv dreihundert Jahre nordamerikanischer Geschichte einfängt und von der Abholzung der scheinbar endlosen Wälder erzählt, vom ewigen Kampf zwischen Mensch und Natur.

René en Charles, twee berooide jonge Fransen, emigreren in de zeventiende eeuw naar Nieuw-Frankrijk, op zoek naar een betere toekomst. Ze beginnen hun nieuwe leven in Noord-Amerika, beiden als lijfeigenen, en kappen daar de machtige bossen. Al snel lopen hun levens uiteen. De zachtaardige René trouwt een indiaanse vrouw en gaat een arm maar gelukkig bestaan tegemoet. De nietsontziende Charles daarentegen doet alles om een fortuin te vergaren. Hij trouwt een Nederlandse en weet een groot hout- en pelsimperium op te bouwen. Terwijl hun kinderen, hun kindskinderen, en de kinderen van hun bondgenoten en vijanden hun levens leiden, worden de Noord-Amerikaanse wouden steeds verder uitgedund.

Now a mini-series on National Geographic! A Washington Post Best Book of the Year & a New York Times Notable Book From the Pulitzer Prize–­­winning author of The Shipping News and “Brokeback Mountain” comes the New York Times bestselling epic about the demise of the world’s forests. “Barkskins is grand entertainment in the tradition of Dickens and Tolstoy…the crowning achievement of Annie Proulx’s distinguished career, but also perhaps the greatest environmental novel ever written” —San Francisco Chronicle In the late seventeenth century two young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord for three years in exchange for land, they become woodcutters—barkskins. René suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a native woman and their descendants live trapped between two cultures. But Duquet runs away, becomes a fur trader, then sets up a timber business. Annie Proulx tells the stories of the descendants of Sel and Duquet over three hundred years—their travels across North America, to Europe, China, and New Zealand—the revenge of rivals, accidents, pestilence, Indian attacks, and cultural annihilation. Over and over, they seize what they can of a presumed infinite resource, leaving the modern-day characters face to face with possible ecological collapse and the consequences of environmental exploitation and colonialism. “A stunning, bracing, full-tilt ride through three hundred years of US and Canadian history…with the type of full-immersion plot that keeps you curled in your chair, reluctant to stop reading” (Elle), Barkskins showcases Proulx’s inimitable genius of creating characters who are so vivid that we follow them with fierce attention. “This is Proulx at the height of her powers as an irreplaceable American voice” (Entertainment Weekly, Grade A), and Barkskins “is an awesome monument of a book” (The Washington Post)—“the masterpiece she was meant to write” (The Boston Globe). As Anthony Doerr says, “This magnificent novel possesses the dark humor of The Shipping News and the social awareness of ‘Brokeback Mountain.’”

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES 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.

Quoyle, een onhandige derderangsjournalist, werkt voor een plaatselijke krant in het noorden van de staat New York. Nadat zijn vlinderachtige, overspelige echtgenote is verongelukt, weet zijn tante de verslagen Quoyle over te halen om met haar en zijn beide dochtertjes het verlaten voorouderlijk huis aan de kust van Newfoundland te betrekken. De ruige streek met zijn onherbergzame klimaat stelt de weduwnaar voor nieuwe uitdagingen: hij moet een oud huis bewoonbaar zien te maken en zich als verslaggever van de scheepsberichten bewijzen in de Gammy Bird, een bizarre krant die voornamelijk aandacht besteedt aan seksschandalen en auto-ongelukken. De confrontatie van de trage, maar allesbehalve domme Quoyle met de woeste natuur en zijn contacten met de niet bepaald tamme Newfoundlanders worden met groot vakmanschap, veel vaart en een aanstekelijk gevoel voor humor beschreven.

The author describes her purchase of six hundred wilderness acres in Wyoming and construction of a library-centric home where she contemplated her rich family history, including a river boat captain ancestor who met historical figures.

Autobiografie van de Amerikaanse schrijfster (1935- ), met name over de perikelen rond het nieuwe huis dat ze in Wyoming liet bouwen.

Vengeance, folie, pauvreté - une fois encore, Annie Proulx nous invite au voyage dans les grands espaces sauvages de l'Amérique profonde, coins perdus où les habitants sont aussi rudes et brutaux que le climat. Et voilà le lecteur transporté dans un milieu de petits chasseurs et fermiers, personnages violents et mal dégrossis sur lesquels l'auteur porte un regard à la fois acide, amusé et moqueur. L'atmosphère y est bien sûr incomparable, car Annie Proulx maîtrise de manière peu commune l'art de faire sentir les tempêtes qui couvent sur ces paysages rugueux, les haines, les jalousies et les rancoeurs. La menace pèse sur ces récits teintés d'un humour grinçant, les mots se heurtent ricochent les uns contre les autres, mais l'orage n'éclate pas toujours et l'évocation de la violence, latente, n'en est que plus remarquable.

Now an Academy Award-winning Netflix film by Jane Campion, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst: Thomas Savage's acclaimed Western is "a pitch-perfect evocation of time and place" (Boston Globe) for fans of East of Eden and Brokeback Mountain. Set in the wide-open spaces of the American West, The Power of the Dog is a stunning story of domestic tyranny, brutal masculinity, and thrilling defiance from one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in American literature. The novel tells the story of two brothers — one magnetic but cruel, the other gentle and quiet — and of the mother and son whose arrival on the brothers’ ranch shatters an already tenuous peace. From the novel’s startling first paragraph to its very last word, Thomas Savage’s voice — and the intense passion of his characters — holds readers in thrall. "Gripping and powerful...A work of literary art." —Annie Proulx, from her afterword

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.

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.

Eine unvergessliche, tragikomische Geschichte, erzählt von der mehrfach preisgekrönten Autorin Annie Proulx, in deren herb-poetischer Sprache jene fremde Gegend zum Sehnsuchtsland wird. „Schiffsmeldungen“ fürs Lokalblatt soll Quoyle jetzt schreiben. Quoyle, der ewige Versager und Pechvogel, den es aus dem Staat New York auf die Felseninsel Neufundland im Osten Kanadas verschlagen hat. Quoyle, der immer schon panische Angst vor dem Wasser hatte. Und doch findet er hier in dieser kargen Landschaft, wo seine Vorfahren siedelten, so etwas wie Glück und für sich und seine beiden Töchter so etwas wie ein Zuhause ... Der Roman, der Annie Proulx berühmt machte!

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' marks Annie Proulx's return to the Wyoming of 'Brokeback Mountain' and the familiar cast of hardy, unsentimental prairie folk. The stories are cast over centuries, and capture the voices and lives of the settlers this sagebrushed and weatherworn country has known, from the native Indian tribes to the modern day ranch owners and politicians, and their cowboy forebears. In 'A Family Man', an old man nearing the end of his life unburdens himself of the weighty family secrets that were his father's unwelcome legacy. 'Them Old Cowboy Songs' follows Archie and Rosie, a young pioneer couple, and their hardships in their attempt to homestead in the exposed wintry expanses of the prairie, and 'Testimony of the Donkey' finds a young international couple, Marc and Caitlin, struggling with much more modern concerns, and confronting uncertainty as their relationship comes to its end. These are stories of desperation and hard times, often marked by an inescapable sadness, set in a landscape both brutal and magnificent. Enlivened by folk tales, flights of fancy, and details of ranch and rural work, they juxtapose Wyoming's traditional character and attitudes - confrontation of tough problems, prejudice, persistence in the face of difficulty - with the more benign values of the new west. These are bold, elegant and memorable pieces, and once more confirm Annie Proulx as one of the most talented, unique short story writers in the language.

Une fois encore, Annie Proulx nous plonge au coeur de l'Ouest américain, âpre désert de beautés et de dangers, à la rencontre de personnages isolés, tourmentés, qui avancent coûte que coûte sur une route dont ils sont à la fois les héros et les prisonniers. C'est à un voyage jusqu'à l'ultime frontière d'un monde presque disparu, et jusqu'aux dernières franges de l'âme des hommes, qu'elle nous convie, elle qui sait comme personne conjuguer le réalisme et l'intime pour explorer le mythe américain, le confronter à ses contradictions et ses excès, ses violences et ses splendeurs.

Presents a collection of short stories about rural Wyoming by twentieth-century American writer and novelist Annie Prouix.

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 this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love. In "The Mud Below," a rodeo rider's obsession marks the deepening fissures between his family life and self-imposed isolation. In "The Half-Skinned Steer," an elderly fool drives west to the ranch he grew up on for his brother's funeral, and dies a mile from home. In "Brokeback Mountain," the difficult affair between two cowboys survives everything but the world's violent intolerance. These are stories of desperation, hard times, and unlikely elation, set in a landscape both brutal and magnificent. Enlivened by folk tales, flights of fancy, and details of ranch and rural work, they juxtapose Wyoming's traditional character and attitudes—confrontation of tough problems, prejudice, persistence in the face of difficulty—with the more benign values of the new west. Stories in Close Range have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and GQ. They have been selected for the O. Henry Stories 1998 and The Best American Short Stories of the Century and have won the National Magazine Award for Fiction. This is work by an author writing at the peak of her craft.

From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx comes an exhilarating story brimming with language, history, landscape, music, and love. Bob Dollar is a young man from Denver trying to make good in a bad world. Out of college and aimless, Dollar takes a job with Global Pork Rind, scouting out big spreads of land that can be converted to hog farms. Soon he's holed up in a two-bit Texas town called Woolybucket, where he settles into LaVon Fronk's old bunkhouse for fifty dollars a month, helps out at Cy Frease's Old Dog Café, and learns the hard way how vigorously the old Texas ranch owners will hold on to their land, even when their children want no part of it. Robust, often bawdy, strikingly original, That Old Ace in the Hole traces the waves of change that have shaped the American West over the past century—and in Bob Dollar, Proulx has created one of the most irrepressible characters in contemporary fiction.

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Proulx brings the immigrant experience to life in this stunning novel that traces the ownership of a simple green accordion. E. Annie Proulx’s Accordion Crimes is a masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. Proulx brings the immigrant experience in America to life through the eyes of the descendants of Mexicans, Poles, Africans, Irish-Scots, Franco-Canadians and many others, all linked by their successive ownership of a simple green accordion. The music they make is their last link with the past—voice for their fantasies, sorrows and exuberance. Proulx’s prodigious knowledge, unforgettable characters and radiant language make Accordion Crimes a stunning novel, exhilarating in its scope and originality.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx's mesmerising stories inspired by the harsh and unforgiving landscape of Wyoming are gathered together in this collectable volume.

Dans le Vermont, vers 1944, Loyal Blood cache sa fiancée, morte les " bas tirebouchonnés ", dans l'ancienne tanière d'un renard, et s'enfuit de la ferme familiale. Pour lui, c'est le début d'une pénible odyssée à travers l'Amérique qui finira dans les années quatre-vingt. Dans un décor gigantesque et démentiel, à côté duquel la nature humaine semble bien petite, Annie Proulx décline une multitude de scènes réalistes, puisées au cœur même de la vie. Ouvrier, mineur ou trappeur au fil de ses errances, Blood envoie des cartes postales sans jamais donner d'adresse. En fait, il habite sa terrible faute. Jusqu'à sa mort, il sera maudit. Cartes Postales est le premier roman de l'auteur désormais mondialement célèbre de Brokeback Mountain.