Author

Publication

2008 - Scribner, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

55,250 words, Guess

Page Count

221 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 2 more

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3566.R697 F56 2008

Description

Pioneer homesteaders facing drought and debt give way to modern-day hippies trying to lose themselves in the vanishing wilderness and real estate developers out to make a buck-unforgettable characters in nine stories that range in tone from crude cowboy humor to heartbreaking American tragedy. About Author: Edna Annie Proulx is an American journalist and author. Her second novel, The Shipping News (1993), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for fiction in 1994. Her short story "Brokeback Mountain" was adapted as an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award-winning major motion picture released in 2005. She won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her first novel, Postcards. She has written most of her stories and books simply as Annie Proulx, but has also used the names E. Annie Proulx and E.A. Proulx.

Description

Pioneer homesteaders facing drought and debt give way to modern-day hippies trying to lose themselves in the vanishing wilderness and real estate developers out to make a buck-unforgettable characters in nine stories that range in tone from crude cowboy humor to heartbreaking American tragedy.

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Series Statement

  • Wyoming stories -- 3

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  • Fine just the way it is: Wyoming stories 3HardcoverScribner2008-01-01
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