Heart Songs and Other Stories

Name: Heart Songs and Other Stories
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ISBN: 9780020360759

ISBN-10: 0020360754

ISBN-13: 9780020360759

Edition: 1995 (Reprint)

Authors: Annie Proulx

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Before she wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning bestsellerThe 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 rites of nature, and the rituals of small-town life. The country is blue-collar New England; the characters are native families and the dispossessed working class, whose heritage is challenged by the neorural bourgeoisie from the city; and the themes are as elemental as the landscape: revenge, malice, greed, passion. Told with skill and profundity and crafted by a master storyteller, these are lean,…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 3/17/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Annie Proulx lives near the Red Desert. Her novel The Shipping News won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1994. Proulxs other works include Brokeback Mountain, Postcards, That Old Ace in the Hole, and Close Range, Wyoming Stories. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.



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