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The
Shipping News |
In this touching and atmospheric novel set among the fishermen
of Newfoundland, Proulx tells the story of Quoyle. From all
outward appearances, Quoyle has gone through his first 36
years on earth as a big schlump of a loser. He's not attractive,
he's not brilliant or witty or talented, and he's not... Read
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Postcards |
Reproduced as graphics that preface narrative sections,
the postcards in this novel -- communications between the
Blood family and their son Loyal, as well as other personal
mail and advertising material -- progressively reveal the
insecurity of the rural Bloods in the changing post-war world.
Loyal... Read
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Heart
Songs and Other Stories |
Before she wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller
The Shipping News, E. 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
anthologized.
These stories reverberate with rural tradition, the...
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Accordion
Crimes |
Proulx found fertile, if rocky, soil for her first two novels
(Postcards
and The
Shipping News) in the far northeastern corner of North
America. In Accordion Crimes she ranges much further
afield. The novel follows an accordion from the hands of its
maker in Sicily in 1890 until it is flattened by a... Read
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