Now in trade paperback from National Book award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx--an "unforgettable" (Miami Herald) and "vivid" (O, The Oprah Magazine) collection of stories set in Wyoming.

Winner of two O. Henry Prizes, Annie Proulx has been anthologized in nearly every major collection of great American stories. Her bold, inimitable language, her exhilarating eye for detail, her dark sense of humor, and her compassion inform this profoundly compelling collection of stories.

Proulx creates a fierce, visceral panorama of American folly and fate in these...

E. Annie Proulx, die mehrfach preisgekrnte amerikanische Autorin, erzhlt in ihrer herb-poetischen Sprache die Geschichte eines Mannes in den Dreiigern. Quoyle, der uerlich wenig ansehnliche Held des Romans, hat weder Glck im Beruf noch in der Liebe. Als er wieder einmal vor dem Nichts steht, lt er sich dazu berreden, zum Herkunftsort seiner Familie, zu der Felseninsel Neufundland im Osten Kanadas, zurckzukehren. Trotz widriger Bedingungen gelingt es ihm hier, Fu zu fassen. Quoyle wird Reporter fr die Schiffsmeldungen beim Lokalblatt.

Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Best Novel
A New York Times Notable Book
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year

From the Pulitzer Prize---winning author of The Shipping News and "Brokeback Mountain," comes the New York Times bestselling epic about the demise of the world's forests: "Barkskins is grand entertainment in the tradition of Dickens and Tolstoy...the crowning achievement of Annie Proulx's distinguished career, but also perhaps the greatest environmental novel ever written" (San Francisco Chronicle).

In the late...