Blogs in July 2020

That Old Ace in the Hole 3rd July 2020

‘That Old Ace in the Hole’ is a richly textured story of one man’s struggle to make good in the inhospitable ranch country of the Texas panhandle, told with razor-sharp wit and a masterly sense of place. Some folks...

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Barkskins 28th July 2019

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...

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Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 11th July 2019

A collection of engaging short stories about hard-headed and resourceful folks facing the challenges of their hard-scrabble lives. Proulx’s depictions of memorable characters and the remote reaches of the American west they inhabit will remain in readers’ minds long...

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The Shipping News 4th October 2015

Annie Proulx’s highly acclaimed, international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. When his no-good wife is killed in a spectacular road accident, Quoyle heads for the land...

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Fine Just the Way it is: Wyoming Stories 3 1st January 1970

The fantastic new collection of stories from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘The Shipping News’ and ‘Brokeback Mountain’. ‘Fine Just The Way It Is’ marks Annie Proulx’s return to the Wyoming of ‘Brokeback Mountain’ and the familiar cast of...

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