Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3

ISBN-13: 9780007269747 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 240 str.

Annie Proulx

Opis

'Fine Just The Way It Is' returns to the familiar cast of the hardy, unsentimental prairie folk that made up the Wyoming stories of 'Bad Dirt' and 'Close Range'. These nine stories roam over centuries, capturing the voices and lives of the settlers of this sage-brushed and weatherworn country.

Recenzje

'Proulx is at her urgent, muscular best when elbow deep in the romance of hard souls and bittersweet lives. As a portraitist of the fearsome, awesome Wyoming landscape she is peerless. To read her descriptions of the West is to fall hopelessly and inescapable in love.' Melanie McGrath, Evening Standard

'A sublimely good writer about landscape and the relationship of man to landscape...Proulx's brilliance is to hedge her hard comedy with tremendous tenderness ...These are meticulous, wonderfully actualised descriptions of small lives lived in a place that is lonely and unchanging, and heartbreakingly beautiful, and that is trying to kill you.' Sam Leith, Daily Telegraph

'Like "Brokeback Mountain", it scrutinises and salutes the near-mute stoicism of people trapped in implacably adverse circumstances. And on the subject Proulx is incomparable.' Peter Kemp, Sunday Times

'Compressed, evocative prose conveys the sharp details of hard times in an unforgiving landscape.' Financial Times

'This volume finely exhibits Proulx's distinctive skills' Sunday Times

'Despite their shared backdrop, these tales span cultures and centuries, depicting characters as diverse as a couple of young homesteaders trying to muddle through a harsh 18th century winter, and a woman raised by a '"trash rancher" returning home from Iraq. Nine in all, they vary exhilaratingly in pace, tone and length- in everything that is, but accomplishment.' Daily Mail

O autorze

Annie Proulx is the author of nine books, including the novel The Shipping News, Barkskins and the story collection Close Range. Her many honors include a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and a PEN/Faulkner award. Her story 'Brokeback Mountain,' which originally appeared in The New Yorker, was made into an Academy Award-winning film. She lives in New Hampshire.