L'écriture d'Annie Proulx explore en profondeur les thèmes de la survie et de la résilience dans des environnements hostiles. Son style distinctif se caractérise par une atmosphère immersive, soulignant le lien profond entre les personnes et le paysage naturel. À travers ses récits, elle aborde les complexités des relations humaines et la force intérieure des personnages confrontés à l'adversité. Sa prose capture souvent la beauté sauvage et la nature impitoyable du monde qui nous entoure.
Quoyle, qui a démarré dans la vie comme un perdant, écrit des articles pour un journal minable. Il épouse Petal, mais elle se tue avec son amant dans un accident de voiture. Que faire quand on a 35 ans, qu'on est veuf, qu'on a deux enfants et qu'on fait une grosse déprime?
On connaît l’attachement d’Annie Proulx pour les populations rurales d’Amérique du Nord, particulièrement celles du Wyoming. Prises au piège de leur propre destin, victimes des caprices de la nature, elles se sentent impuissantes, mais à leur résignation se mêle toujours l’orgueil, une fierté qui ne veut pas s’avouer vaincue. Ces cow-boys à peine sortis de l’adolescence et déjà burinés par la vie, ces femmes des ranches pleines d’abnégation et de rudesse continuent de clamer : « C’est très bien comme ça ! » Avec une rare puissance d’évocation, empreinte de tendresse, de violence et d’humour, Annie Proulx fait revivre les paysages et les personnages de cette Amérique mythique. Deux recueils de nouvelles d’Annie Proulx ont déjà été publiés par Le Livre de Poche : Nouvelles histoires du Wyoming et Les Pieds dans la boue. Annie Proulx sait comme personne suggérer les journées chaudes sans un souffle de vent ou la fumée des feux de forêt de l’automne. Un art classique, fait de nostalgie et d’innocence perdue. Jacques-Pierre Amette, Le Point.
Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, Brokeback Mountain is her masterpiece. Brokeback Mountain was originally published in The New Yorker. It won the National Magazine Award. It also won an O. Henry Prize. Included in this volume is Annie Proulx's haunting story about the difficult, dangerous love affair between a ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy. Also included is the celebrated screenplay for the major motion picture "Brokeback Mountain," written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. All three writers have contributed essays on the process of adapting this critically acclaimed story for film.
"The stories in Annie Proulx's new collection are peopled by characters who struggle with circumstances beyond their control in a kind of rural noir half-light. Trouble comes at them from unexpected angles, and they will themselves through it, hardheaded and resourceful. Bound by the land and by custom, they inhabit worlds that are often isolated, dangerous, and in Proulx's prose, vivid." In "What Kind of Furniture Would Jesus Pick?" rancher Gilbert Wolfscale, alienated from his sons, bewildered by his criminal ex-wife, gets shoved down his throat the fact that the old-style ranch life has gone. Several stories concern the eccentric denizens of Elk Tooth, a tiny hamlet where life revolves around three bars. Elk Toothers enter beard-growing contests, scrape together a living hauling hay, catch poachers in unorthodox ways. "Man Crawling Out of Trees" is about urban newcomers from the east and their discovery, too late, that one of them has violated the deepest ethics of the place. Above all, these stories are about the lives of rapidly disappearing rural Americans.
The friendship between Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two cowboys, evolves into an intimate relationship while they are working together as a herder and camp tender, sharing a bond that spans many years and frequent separations.
Collection of short stories about loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love
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'.
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 is killed in a spectacular road accident, Quoyle heads for the land of his forefathers - the remotest corner of far-flung Newfoundland. With 'the aunt' and his delinquent daughters - Bunny and Sunshine - in tow, Quoyle finds himself part of an unfolding, exhilarating Atlantic drama. 'The Shipping News' is an irresistible comedy of human life and possibility.
Folks in the Texas panhandle do not like hog farms. But Bob Dollar is determined to see his new job as hog site scout for Global Pork Rind through to the end. However he is forced to face the idiosyncratic inhabitants of Woolybucket and to question his own notions of loyalty and home.A brilliant novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Proulx, author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain. That Old Ace in the Hole is a richly textured story of one man's struggle to make good in the inhospitable ranch country of the Texas panhandle, told with razor-sharp wit and a masterly sense of place.
The tale of the Blood family, New England farmers who must confront the twentieth century--and their own extinction
