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59 reviews
E. Annie Proulx

Fourth Estate, 2002

Proulx is an Excellent Writer!
Poulx characters are so well defined you feel you know them. Her descriptions put you there as well. I could almost smell those nasty hog farms. Bob Dollar was a lovable character wanting to keep his promises to his employer but comflicted over possibility of hurting people he met in the community. The characters in the community were excellent creations and felt like real people. What I love ...

The Shipping News

447 reviews
E. Annie Proulx

Scribner, 1994

Good News
This is the story about a man named Quoyle, an ugly giant of a man, a loser who grows on you like a dull landscape. At the beginning of the novel, he is without plan, without talent, and without the good sense to notice. A lumbering, large-chinned, clumsy loner, Quoyle decides on the death of his beloved yet wayward wife that something has to change. He leaves New York State with his two young ...

Close Range: Wyoming Stories

151 reviews
E. Annie Proulx

Simon & Schuster, 1999

Sylistic Prose
With the flinty images produced by the sytlistic prose of Annie Proulx, the story plot just comes along as an extra added bonus. Here is an example: "...from tight-wound kid hustler in a wool suit riding the train out of Cheyenne to the geriatric limper in this spooled-out year, Mero had kicked down thoughts of the place where he began..." The collection contains the now-famous story, ...

Postcards (Large Print (Import))
E. Annie Proulx

Clipper Large Print/W F Howes LTD, 2002

Annie Proulx's first novel received huge acclaim and marked the launch of an outstanding literary career. 'Proulx has come close to writing "the great American novel" ' New York Times Postcards is the story of Loyal Blood, a man who spends a lifetime on the run from a crime so terrible that it renders him forever incapable of touching a woman. The odyssey begins on a freezing Vermont hillside in 1944 and propels Blood across the American West ...

Accordion Crimes, By E. Annie Proulx, Fiction - Unabridged, B-O-T Library Edition, Read By Anna Fields, 12 ...

1 review
E. Annie Proulx

Books On Tape, Inc., 1995

New Life With A Community Of Germans In Iowa
"A century ago, great waves of immigrants arrived in America and they brought only their most precious possessions with them. For one of the arrivals, a young Sicilian, it was his accordion. Within a year, he was dead, but the accordion took on a NEW LIFE WITH A COMMUNITY OF GERMANS IN IOWA....." [from the back cover of the audio cassette case]

The Best American Short Stories 1997 (Best American Short Stories)

4 reviews
Kenison

Houghton Mifflin, 1997

Nourishment for the Hungry Mind
Now that "Story" Magazine has tragically folded (I forgive you, Lois), the annual "Best of" series is just about my only source left for finding a large number of really high-quality short stories in one place. "Atlantic," "The New Yorker," "Playboy," and all the other standard fiction venues are nice occasionally, but they each publish two or three stories per month at the most. Just as I ...

The Shipping News [Unabridged Library Edition]
E. Annie Proulx

Recorded Books, LLC, 1996

The winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, The Shipping News is a stunning, big-hearted novel that beautifully blends pulse-thumping romance, fishing lore, and wildly eccentric characters. Meet Quoyle, a timid New York newspaperman whose two-timing wife has finally disappeared for good. Devastated, he retreats to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful coast of Newfoundland, where he hopes to cobble up a new life. ...

Accordion Crimes

84 reviews
E. Annie Proulx

Scribner, 1996

One of the best books!
I loved this book! I hated to see it end, and will probably read it again and again. I was captured by the wonderful descriptions of each ethnic experience. I often felt like I was right there, going through everything with these characters. I kept visualizing movie scenes. Great American history lessons. It is so nice to read such rich literature! Like the money hidden in the accordion, ...

Heart Songs
E. Annie Proulx

Fourth Estate, 1995

SJO FARTS NYTT (Shipping News)
E. Annie Proulx

ManPocket, 2002

Swedish language edition of Shipping News.

Power of the Dog, the a Novel

19 reviews
Thomas Savage

Topeka Bindery, 2001

Cruel, stunning, haunting
A completely unexpected and disturbingly powerful character study of a small group of characters in the West, circa 1940s. The prose here is incredible, and the plot unfolds slowly and myteriously. Palpable tension-- the author knew precisely what he woas doing-- with an ending I truly didn't see coming. One of the most remarkable books I've ever read.

Accordion Crimes [UNABRIDGED CD] (Audiobook)
E. Annie Proulx, 2006

Accordion Crimes opens in 1890 in Sicily as an accordion maker completes his finest instrument - nineteen polished bone buttons, sleek lacquer - and dreams of owning a music store in America. He and his eleven-year-old son, carrying little more than the green accordion, voyage to the teeming, violent port of New Orleans. Within a year, the accordion maker is murdered by an anti-Italian lynching mob, but his instrument carries Proulxs story into ...

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