Annie Proulx
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
Die raubeinigen Naturburschen Jack und Ennis werden auf Brokeback Mountain als Schafhirten engagiert, und dort, in der Einsamkeit der Berge im Westen Amerikas, geschieht etwas, das gegen alle Regeln und Moralvorstellungen verstößt: Die beiden jungen Männer verlieben sich ineinander ... In den elf Geschichten ihres Weltbestsellers zeichnet Annie Proulx ein unvergessliches Bild ihrer Wahlheimat Wyoming. Alte Viehzüchterlegenden vermischen sich mit...
2) Barkskins
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Bark Skins open in New France in the late 18th century as Rene Sel, an illiterate woodsman makes his way from Northern France to the homeland to seek a living. Bound to a "seigneur" for three years in exchange for land, he suffers extraordinary hardship and violence, always in awe of the forest he is charged with clearing. In the course of this epic novel, Proulx tells the stories of Rene's children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, as well...
Author
Language
English
Description
At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just deserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As three generations of his family cobble up new lives, Quoyle confronts his private demons--and the unpredictable...
Author
Publisher
Symphony Space, Inc
Language
English
Description
"He took everything so calmly; did he imagine that she always kissed the man sitting next to her on the night plane from Miami?"
-From Miami-New York by Martha Gellhorn
Actors read fabulous stories that take place in transit, about adventures that would not have been possible without modern transportation. This compilation proves that a lot can happen neither here nor there, but on the way from one place to another.
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