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504 рубAccordion Crimes
Annie Proulx This is the story of a green, two-row button accordion. Brought to America by its Sicilian maker in 1890, it survives a century and traverses a continent. The accordion's music resounds around the Cajun bayoux; notes drift out of a lonely Chicago tenement. A French' Canadian orphan struggles to master the battered instrument, left behind by his parents, searching for a lost past. Whether given, sold or stolen, the accordion passes through the hands of a host of unlucky owners who embody the hopes, hardships and passions of immigrant life in twentieth-century America. Utterly original, Proulx's novel stays in the mind like an old song and tugs at the memory like a half-forgotten tune. Формат: 13 см х 19,5 см.
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504 рубAccordion Crimes
Annie Proulx This is the story of a green, two-row button accordion. Brought to America by its Sicilian maker in 1890, it survives a century and traverses a continent. The accordion's music resounds around the Cajun bayoux; notes drift out of a lonely Chicago tenement. A French' Canadian orphan struggles to master the battered instrument, left behind by his parents, searching for a lost past. Whether given, sold or stolen, the accordion passes through the hands of a host of unlucky owners who embody the hopes, hardships and passions of immigrant life in twentieth-century America. Utterly original, Proulx's novel stays in the mind like an old song and tugs at the memory like a half-forgotten tune.
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337 рубBrokeback Mountain and Other Stories
Annie Proulx Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar live hard and lonely lives as ranch hands in the wild, unforgiving landscape of Wyoming. They are 'country boys with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, both rough-mannered and tough-spoken'. Glad to have found one another's company where none had been expected. But suddenly companionship becomes something else on Brokeback Mountain: something not looked for, something deadly...
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1760 рубBrokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay
Annie Proulx, Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, Brokeback Mountain is her masterpiece. Brokeback Mountain was originally published in The New Yorker. It won the National Magazine Award. It also won an O. Henry Prize. Included in this volume is Annie Proulx's haunting story about the difficult, dangerous love affair between a ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy. Also included is the celebrated screenplay for the major motion picture "Brokeback Mountain," written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. All three writers have contributed essays on the process of adapting this critically acclaimed story for film.
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504 рубClose Range: Brokeback Mountain and Other Stoeries
Annie Proulx Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar lead hard and lonely lives as ranch hands in the uncompromising landscape of Wyoming, when unexpected companionship on Brokeback Mountain leads to something more beautiful, more-painful - and more deadly... "If you can't fix it you got a stand it." Ennis' words run like a harsh prairie stormwind through the starkly memorable, desperately poignant tales of the love, loss, ranch life and rodeo bulls of Close Range. In this ruthless struggle for survival on the unforgiving plains, both man and nature are forced to eke out a difficult existence in a battle to the death. Inventive, compassionate and full of macabre humour, the eleven extraordinary tales in Close Range reveal a writer at the height of her powers. Формат: 13 см х 19,5 см.
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488 рубFine Just The Way It Is
Annie Proulx "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: from the Native American tribes to the modern-day ranch owners and politicians, to the cowboys of the past. "Fine Just the Way It Is" tells the story of a landscape, weaving folk tales and flights of fancy with stories of ranch and rural life. Bold, elegant and memorable, this is a stunning collection from one of America's finest writers. Формат: 13 см х 19,5 см.
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504 рубHeart Songs
Annie Proulx In the remote settlements of New England, life revolves around hunting. On the high, wooded hillsides there are deer to be stalked; upriver there are quiet pools of trout to be caught, grouse to be shot and traplines to be laid for fur. But the old ways are threatened and the community is forced to face inevitable change. Whether they're out-of-towners who think that country life is improving, or natives who know that it isn't, the men and women of these stories are all searching for something better. These are people who dream useless dreams - and go on dreaming, whatever the disappointments. Tough, tender and irresistibly humorous, "Heat Songs" takes the reader on a trail through the great outdoors to the innermost places of the heart. Формат: 13 см х 19,5 см.
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504 рубPostcards
Annie Proulx On a Vermont hillside in 1944, Loyal Blood buries his dead girlfriend under the rocks of a stone wall. For the next forty years, Loyal is on the run from this terrible crime, leaving him forever incapable of touching another woman and sending him aimlessly across the American West. Denied love and unable to settle, Loyal lives a hundred different lives: mining gold, growing beans, hunting fossils, trapping, prospecting for uranium and ranching. The only contact with his past is through a series of postcards with no return address. With no chance of two-way communication, Loyal is unaware that in his absence disaster has befallen his family, and their deep-rooted connection with the land he loves has been devastatingly severed. Формат: 13 см х 19,5 см.
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462 рубThat Old Ace in the Hole
Annie Proulx At seven years old, Bob Dollar was left on his uncle Tam's doorstep with nothing more than a promise that his parents would send for him. But as Bob grows into a man above his doting-but-poor uncle's junk shop, news never arrives. With a thirst for knowledge, the now-grown Bob takes on the job of hog site scout for Global Pork Rind, sending him through the prairies and big cities of the American South. But some folks in the Texas panhandle don't like hog farms. With a fictitious cover and the advice to wear cowboy boots to assuage the locals, Bob must contend with me tough men and women dead set against hog farming and outsiders, including ancient Freda Beautyrooms, who controls a ranch he covets, and Ace Crouch, the windmiller who defies the hog farms. As Bob settles in at La Von Fronk's bunkhouse and lends a hand at Cy Frease's Old Dog Cafe, he finds himself forced to question everything.
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1965 рубThat Old Ace in the Hole : A Novel
Annie Proulx Amazon.comBob Dollar is a reluctant land swindler. When the 25-year-old protagonist in Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole signs on as a location scout for Global Pork Rind, an industrial hog farming corporation, he has no idea what kind of moral quandaries he's in for. Well, maybe he does. His assignment, after all, is to infiltrate a tiny town in the Texas Panhandle and find a tract of land his employer can turn into an industrial hog farm. Bob tells the locals he's scouting for luxury home developers ("They feel there is potential here"), but as a cover story it's less than clever. Only a fool would build mansions in the godforsaken Panhandle country, a place of light soil, bad wind, killing drought, and end-of-world thunder. "To live here," one Panhandler tells Bob, "it sure helps if you are half cow and half mesquite and all crazy." The narrative follows Bob's hapless quest to ink a deal, but Proulx's mission is bigger than that. She's out to tell the story of the...
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385 рубThe Shipping News
Annie Proulx Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless journalist living and working in New York. While weathering the storm that is his marriage of one-way love for no-good wife Petal, disaster strikes, and Petal is killed in a spectacular road accident. Set adrift on an aimless quest, Quoyle heads for the land of his forefathers - to the remote corners of far-flung Newfoundland. With his delinquent daughters, Bunny and Sunshine, in tow, Quoyle takes up the post of shipping news reporter, and finds himself part-of an 11 exhilarating Atlantic drama. Set against the bracing winds and billowing waves of Newfoundland, "The Shipping News" is an irresistible comedy of human life and possibility.
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509 рубWyoming Stories 2: Bad Dirt
Annie Proulx It's an isolated expanse of wasters and dreamers where the inhabitants say there's no place like home - while longing for icebergs and imported olives. Where men grow beards competitively and where Bible classes wonder, "What kind of furniture would Jesus pick?" It's a place populated by characters like Cheri Wham, who-married the school bully and is now raising a herd of beer-swilling children; Dr Playfire, who casts smug aspersions on his patients' paternity; and Gilbert Wolfscale, who farms turkeys and adorns them with Thanksgiving cranberry necklaces to outdo the supermarket birds with "breasts like Las Vegas strippers". Full of cleverly wrought complications, magical twists and remarkable storytelling, this collection of stories is a must for all fans of the unexpected and delightfully strange.
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434 рубWyoming Stories 3: Fine Just the Way It Is
Annie Proulx 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: from the Native American tribes to the modern-day ranch owners and politicians, to the cowboys of the past. Fine Just the Way It Is tells the story of a landscape, weaving folk tales and flights of fancy with stories of ranch and rural life, gold, elegant and memorably this is a stunning collection from one of America's finest writers.
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