Collection of short stories about loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love
Verhalen uit WyomingReeks
Deze serie duikt in de ruige schoonheid van het Amerikaanse Westen, specifiek in het hart van Wyoming. De verhalen vangen de levens van individuen die worstelen met eenzaamheid, snelle gewelddadigheden en vaak gecompliceerde relaties. De auteur portretteert meesterlijk de complexiteit van de menselijke geest te midden van een landschap dat zowel meedogenloos als magnifiek is. Dit zijn boeiende verhalen over wanhoop, moeilijke tijden en onverwachte vreugde.
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Der wilde Westen heute – bitterböse, herrlich lustig und auch ein bisschen magisch Wyomings Weite ist überwältigend, das Leben dort hart und manchmal unglaublich. Ideales Terrain für Annie Proulx, eine der „besten lebenden Schriftstellerinnen“ (Time Magazine), die mit diesem Erzählband in ihre Wahlheimat zurückkehrt: Elf tragikomische Geschichten über Cowboys, Wildhüter und Barfrauen, exzentrische Aussteiger und Underdogs, die sich in einer grandiosen, aber unwirtlichen Landschaft behaupten.
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"The stories in Annie Proulx's new collection are peopled by characters who struggle with circumstances beyond their control in a kind of rural noir half-light. Trouble comes at them from unexpected angles, and they will themselves through it, hardheaded and resourceful. Bound by the land and by custom, they inhabit worlds that are often isolated, dangerous, and in Proulx's prose, vivid." In "What Kind of Furniture Would Jesus Pick?" rancher Gilbert Wolfscale, alienated from his sons, bewildered by his criminal ex-wife, gets shoved down his throat the fact that the old-style ranch life has gone. Several stories concern the eccentric denizens of Elk Tooth, a tiny hamlet where life revolves around three bars. Elk Toothers enter beard-growing contests, scrape together a living hauling hay, catch poachers in unorthodox ways. "Man Crawling Out of Trees" is about urban newcomers from the east and their discovery, too late, that one of them has violated the deepest ethics of the place. Above all, these stories are about the lives of rapidly disappearing rural Americans.
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Fine Just the Way It Is
- 240bladzijden
- 9 uur lezen
The fantastic new collection of stories from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News' and Brokeback Mountain'.
Brokeback Mountain, Film Tie-In
- 64bladzijden
- 3 uur lezen
The friendship between Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two cowboys, evolves into an intimate relationship while they are working together as a herder and camp tender, sharing a bond that spans many years and frequent separations.
