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Annie Proulx

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47+ opere 32,021 membri 730 recensioni 137 preferito

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Edna Annie Proulx was born in Norwich, Connecticut on August 22, 1935. She graduated from the University of Vermont in 1969 and earned an M. A. from Sir George Williams University in Montreal in 1973. She was a journalist, wrote nonfiction articles for numerous publications, and was the author of mostra altro several "how-to" books before beginning to write fiction in her 50s. She became the first woman to win the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, for her debut novel Postcards. Her novel The Shipping News won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award in 1994. Accordion Crimes, published in 1996, won the Dos Passos Prize for literature. She also won the O. Henry prize for the year's best short story twice; in 1998 for Brokeback Mountain and in 1999 for The Mud Below. She has written more than 50 articles and stories for periodicals and edited Best American Short Stories of 1997. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno

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Opere di Annie Proulx

Avviso ai naviganti (1993) 13,362 copie
Gente del Wyoming (1999) 3,394 copie
I crimini della fisarmonica (1999) 2,817 copie
Cartoline (1992) 1,990 copie
That Old Ace in the Hole (2002) 1,783 copie
Pelle di corteccia (2016) 1,493 copie
Bad Dirt (2004) 1,062 copie
Bird Cloud: A Memoir (2011) 417 copie
The Best American Short Stories 1997 (1997) — Editor & Introduction — 346 copie
Steenstad (1988) 6 copie
Storie del Wyoming (2006) 2 copie
1997 1 copia

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The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000) — Collaboratore — 1,535 copie
The Best American Short Stories 2004 (2004) — Collaboratore — 548 copie
Il potere del cane (1967) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni510 copie
Brokeback Mountain [2005 film] (2005) — Autore — 504 copie
The Best American Short Stories 1999 (1999) — Collaboratore — 443 copie
Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times (2001) — Collaboratore — 440 copie
The Best American Short Stories 1998 (1998) — Collaboratore — 402 copie
The Best American Short Stories 2000 (2000) — Collaboratore — 384 copie
The Best American Short Stories 2009 (2009) — Collaboratore — 354 copie
The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (2007) — Collaboratore — 205 copie
The Best American Travel Writing 2011 (2010) — Collaboratore — 153 copie
The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction (2008) — Collaboratore — 122 copie
The Best American Mystery Stories 2014 (2014) — Collaboratore — 92 copie
Without a Guide: Contemporary Women's Travel Adventures (1994) — Collaboratore — 59 copie
The Vintage Book of American Women Writers (2011) — Collaboratore — 55 copie
Storm: Stories of Survival from Land and Sea (2000) — Collaboratore — 43 copie
The Second Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories (1997) — Collaboratore — 25 copie
The New Great American Writers' Cookbook (2003) — Collaboratore — 20 copie
Horse Stories (2012) — Collaboratore — 16 copie
Contemporary Vermont Fiction: An Anthology (2014) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
Presentask med fyra noveller om kärlek II (2020) — Collaboratore — 2 copie

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Group Read: Barkskins by Annie Proulx in 75 Books Challenge for 2018 (Marzo 2018)
Annie Proulx in Other People's Libraries (Luglio 2016)

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Bellissima la vicenda e belli i personaggi di questo romanzo ambientato sull'isola di Terranova. Quoyle, è un piccolo giornalista, un uomo mite e privo di fascino, per molti un perdente sicuramente per la moglie infedele che improvvisamente lo pianta con due bambine a cui pensare. Lascia Brooklyn e si trasferisce in una terra estranea e crudele, spazzata dal gelo e dal vento. Egli si mette alla prova e riesce a riprendere possesso della propria esistenza, in rapporto strettissimo con l'ambiente e la natura, con il mare e la sua gente. La storia di Quoyle si dipana sulla metafora della navigazione, la vita umana trova simboli nell'arte marinara di annodare nodi.… (altro)
 
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47
Opere correlate
26
Utenti
32,021
Popolarità
#610
Voto
3.8
Recensioni
730
ISBN
498
Lingue
19
Preferito da
137
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Citazioni
1,090

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