Bird Cloud - format ePub

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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’. Just outside town,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

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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–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...

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...

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,...

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Buck, a sturdy crossbreed canine (half St. Bernard, half Shepard), is a dog born to luxury and raised in a sheltered Californian home. But then he is kidnapped and sold to be a sled dog in the harsh and...

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Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there’s tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweet-natured Beth always puts others first, and finally there’s Amy, the youngest and most precocious. Together...

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