Bad Dirt - format ePub

The inspiration behind ‘Life of Pi’ director Ang Lee’s ‘Brokeback Mountain’ is one of the short stories to be found in this haunting collection of Wyoming tales. ‘Brokeback Mountain’ is set...

Before she wrote the bestselling Brokeback Mountain, Annie Proulx was already producing some of the finest short fiction in the country. Here are her collected stories, including two new works never before...

*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Literary Hub!* A Finalist for the 2022 NBCC Awards in Nonfiction, the 2023 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award, and the NEIBA 2023 New England...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family.Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack,...

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...

Annie Proulx’s first novel, which received huge acclaim and launched an outstanding literary career. ‘Postcards’ is the story of Loyal Blood, a man who spends a lifetime on the run from a crime...

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...

A standalone edition of Annie Proulx’s beloved story “Brokeback Mountain” (in the collection Close Range)—the basis for the major motion picture directed by Ang Lee, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath...

The third novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘The Shipping News’, ‘Accordion Crimes’ spans generations, continents and a century and confirms the hallucinatory power of Proulx’s writing....

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...

Sono gli anni Quaranta del Novecento. I Blood vivono nelle campagne del Vermont, quasi ignari dei tumulti che attraversano il mondo, e cercano disperatamente di resistere e mandare avanti una fattoria...

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...

Quoyle vive a Brooklyn, sbarca il lunario facendo il giornalista, ha una moglie e due figlie. Una vita come tante, tra piccole gioie e grandi frustrazioni: finché, un giorno, viene licenziato dal quotidiano...

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...

Grapes are among the most desirable and best-known fruits, prized for their beauty, their succulence and varied flavors, their noble metamorphosis into wine, and their more utilitarian roles as sources...

Brokeback Mountain : un bout de terre sauvage, hors du temps, dans les plaines du Wyoming. Ennis del Mar et Jack Twist, cow-boys, nomades du désert américain, saisonniers des ranchs, s'y croiseront le...

On connaît l’attachement d’Annie Proulx pour les populations rurales d’Amérique du Nord, les habitants isolés du Wyoming, contrée majestueuse et âpre, modelée par les caprices du temps et de la terre...

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...

Quoyle vive a Brooklyn, sbarca il lunario facendo il giornalista, ha una moglie e due figlie. Una vita come tante, tra piccole gioie e grandi frustrazioni: finché, un giorno, viene licenziato dal quotidiano...

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...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx follows the success of Close Range with another remarkable collection of short stories set in Wyoming. Bad Dirt is filled with the vivid and willful...

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Proulx, an "unforgettable" (Miami Herald) and "vivid" (Oprah Daily) collection of stories set in Wyoming.Winner of two O. Henry Prizes, Annie Proulx has been anthologized...

Part autobiography, part natural history, Bird Cloud is the glorious story of Annie Proulx’s piece of the Wyoming landscape and her home there.“Bird Cloud” is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of...

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week ‘A subject that could not be more important. A compact classic!’ Bill McKibben ‘I learned something new – and found something amazing – on every page’...

Sono gli anni Quaranta del Novecento. I Blood vivono nelle campagne del Vermont, quasi ignari dei tumulti che attraversano il mondo, e cercano disperatamente di resistere e mandare avanti una fattoria...

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx returns with another stellar collection of short stories bound to be even more successful than her bestselling, critically acclaimed Close Range.Annie...

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Proulx's first novel, Postcards, tells the mesmerizing tale of Loyal Blood, who misspends a lifetime running from a crime so terrible that it renders him forever incapable...

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...

The brilliant novel from Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx, author of THE SHIPPING NEWS. A richly textured story of one man's struggle to make good in the inhospitable ranch country of the Texas panhandle,...

Annie Proulx’s highly acclaimed, international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. When his no-good wife...

Geoff King was excited to be coming home from prison soon, until his long-time girlfriend dropped a bombshell. This VERY SHORT STORY was first published in Words Worth Reading Issue 2.

From USA Today Bestselling Author KL Donn comes the Blue Collar Daddies series, where the men are older, the women younger, and everyone gets their very own Daddy. Fake.It's just a name.It's what she's...

I have my first-ever crush…on my boss. ​​​​​​​Sienna:I've spent my entire life thinking that there's something wrong with me because I was never like the other girls my age.I never had crushes or dated...

DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK.OKAY, BE AFRAID AND GRAB A DARK BREW…This short story collection has horror to chill you to the bone and humor to tickle your funny bone."Michael McCarty is given full rein,...

A haunted investigator. A trail of bodies. And a countdown no one else can hear.When a young man falls from the roof of a downtown office building, a strange smell clings to his body and a witness reports...

Can a young woman exercise her inner demon, escaping her dangerous alter ego, in time to save Sam and Lillie, two of the most important people in her life?Angie sleeps on into the night as her alter ego,...

Calling All Angels...Short Story to Angels Among Us Series…It's inferred that once an Angel touches you, you must be forever changed in some way.Faith is one such lady, as she runs an errand hours before...

The tie-in book to "17 Tales of Tragedy and Triumph," exploring femininity. From a college bookstore to an AI girlfriend, from Old West Montana to summer camp with a supernatural twist. We travel from...

In a world ravaged by war and environmental collapse, humanity clings to survival amidst the ruins of a fallen civilization. When a brutal marauder army threatens the fragile peace, two unlikely heroes,...

This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents of the complete works of Oscar Wilde, containing more than 150 works. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie...

The No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King's timeless coming-of-age novella, The Body - set in Castle Rock and originally published in his 1982 short story collection Different Seasons, and adapted into...

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Agatha Christie’s seasonal Poirot and Marple short story collection. First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding… then the discovery of a corpse in a chest…...

All 51 Hercule Poirot short stories presented in chonological order in a single volume – plus a bonus story not seen for more than 70 years. ‘My name is Hercule Poirot and I am probably the...

An actress's final film hides a deadly secret. An obsessed architect crosses the limits of what's possible. A telepath takes on one last assignment. The rain signals disaster, and a child's birthday spirals...

This ebook contains Oscar Wilde's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook)...

Can the perfect village save the perfect wedding? INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE EXTRACT FROM A POSTCARD FROM ITALY Cher, the landlady of the Duck & Puddle...

Sherlock Holmes is not only the most famous character in crime fiction, but arguably the most famous character in all fiction. In sixty adventures that pit his extraordinary wits and courage against foreign...

How far would you go to help an enemy?Anna and Lev are enjoying a rustic fall hike when a rainstorm forces them into proximity with a testy teenager. When River's disdain for technology in general and...

Holiday chaos is universal. So is falling head over tentacles.When a case of mistaken mistletoe etiquette leads to a very public, very unexpected kiss, there are three things Xyl keeps reminding herself.One:...

9 Short Stories:Tonight is Christmas, This is What You Get, Stumbrick Witches, Night Mirror, Alone on Saturday Night, The Cabin, BLUE, Burn Yourself at the Stake, Wolf & Sheep: Vendetta1 Micro Novel:...

What if the story was reading you?Mara Penn never meant to bring the book home. One brush of the cover, and it was already too late. Bound in blood-red leather and etched with a shifting sigil, the ancient...

One day, Ram and his family went on a holiday when they were suddenly attacked. Similar incidents had been reported in the same area, prompting Ram and his team to investigate the mysterious enemy. To...

Beyond the realm of rock and roll, George Harrison and John Lennon seek a deeper understanding of existence. Their path, paved by the unexpected sounds of a Mexican Beatles cover band, leads them to María...

"The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath is a haunting exploration of the human psyche. Set against the backdrop of 1950s America, the novel follows Esther Greenwood, a talented and ambitious young woman, as she...

Three irresistible short stories by the global phenomenon Ali Hazelwood, now available together in paperback for the first time, with an exclusive bonus chapter.Mara, Sadie, and Hannah are friends first,...

A dark and disturbing ebook original from the master of the crime genre.A famous writer asks a boxman to open an old safe that comes with the mansion he's just bought. It's not as easy a job as he's used...

Isaac Asimov’s Robot series – from the iconic collection I, Robot to four classic novels – contains some of the most influential works in the history of science fiction. Establishing and testing the Three...

**Pre-order DREAM COUNT, the searing, exquisite new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie now!** From the Women's Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun come twelve...

From the Book of Atmospheres by Robert Scotellaro is a collection of micro and flash stories that explore life at a slant.  Often surreal/fabulistic, there is a universality that threads their fabric...