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Heart Songs and Other Stories

by E Annie Proulx

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Publisher Comments:

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 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, tough tales of an extraordinary place and its people.

Review:

Kenneth RoseThe New York Times Book ReviewCompelling...their sometimes enigmatic, often lyrical images seem to complement New England's lavish but barren beauty.

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Elaine KendallLos Angeles TimesProulx doesn't merely tell her stories or participate in them, but convinces you with every word....You'd have every right to expect that a Hemingway disciple wrote these remarkable stories about life in the Northeastern granite country.

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Kenneth Rose

The New York Times Book Review

Compelling...their sometimes enigmatic, often lyrical images seem to complement New England's lavish but barren beauty.

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Wendy SmithCleveland Plain DealerProulx beautifully evokes the unchanging rhythms of country existence with a deep appreciation for life lived close to the earth....Her prose is supple, strong, and filled with striking images.
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Table of Contents

Contents

On the Antler

Stone City

Bedrock

A Run of Bad Luck

Heart Songs

The Unclouded Day

In the Pit

The Wer-Trout

Electric Arrows

A Country Killing

Negatives

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780020360759
Author:
Proulx, E. Annie
Author:
Proulx, Annie
Author:
Proulx, E. Annie
Publisher:
Scribner Book Company
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Social life and customs
Subject:
Short Stories (Anthologies)
Subject:
Short Stories (single author)
Subject:
Short stories
Subject:
Farm life
Subject:
Vermont
Subject:
Farm life -- Vermont -- Fiction.
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Stories (single author)
Subject:
Vermont Social life and customs Fiction.
Copyright:
1995
Edition Description:
B102
Series Volume:
934
Publication Date:
March 1995
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
224
Dimensions:
8.16x5.12x.45 in. .38 lbs.
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