Annie Proulx
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English
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In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a “seigneur,” for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters — barkskins. René suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a Mi’kmaw woman and their descendants live trapped between two inimical cultures. But Duquet, crafty...
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English
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From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx - whose novels are infused with her knowledge and deep concern for the earth - comes an urgent and riveting history of wetlands, their ecological role and how the loss of them threatens the planet. Fens, bogs, swamps and marine estuaries are the earth's most desirable and dependable resources, and in four illuminating parts Proulx documents the emergence of their systemic destruction in the pursuit of profit...
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Simon & Schuster Audio
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English
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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 masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. Proulx brings the immigrant experience in America to life through the eyes of the descendants of Mexicans, Poles, Africans, Irish-Scots, Franco-Canadians and many...
E. Annie Proulx's Accordion Crimes is a masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. Proulx brings the immigrant experience in America to life through the eyes of the descendants of Mexicans, Poles, Africans, Irish-Scots, Franco-Canadians and many...
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Wyoming stories volume 2
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
219 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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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...
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Wyoming stories volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
283 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Presents eleven short stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx.
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
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xiv, 359 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Bob Dollar, a young Denver man, learns the hard way how vigorously owners will try to hold on to their land when he goes scouting for the site of a hog farm for his employer Global Pork Rind in the rural Texas town of Woolybucket.
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Wyoming stories volume 3
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2008
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221 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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A collection of short stories written about fictitious characters who live on ranches or in small towns in the state of Wyoming.
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Scribner Book Company
Pub. Date
2011
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xiii, 234 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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English
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“Bird Cloud” is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four-hundred-foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. Proulx also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer and a dozen antelope. She fell in love with the land, then owned by the...
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Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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The late writer and naturalist "Ellen Meloy wrote and recorded a series of audio essays for KUER (NPR Utah) in the 1990s. Every few months, she would travel to their Salt Lake City studios from her red rock home of Bluff to read an essay or two. With understated humor and sharp insight, Meloy would illuminate facets of human connection to nature and challenge listeners to examine the world anew. [This book] is a compilation of these essays, transcribed...
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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It's 1963, a time in the United States when life was simple, straightforward and the lines between the sexes and sex roles were crisply drawn and severely delineated. Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist find themselves thrown together when they are hired to tend sheep in the remote area of Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming. Because of the job, the two are forced to spend many hours together alone in the wild. Ennis and Jack are inexorably drawn to each other through...
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Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the local newspaper finds an audience, and his experiences in the town begin to change his life.