Books by Annie Proulx (3)
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Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'One of the greatest American writers' Independent From Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize-�winning author of The Shipping News and "Brokeback Mountain," comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about the taking down of the world's forests. In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, Ren� Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a "seigneur," for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters - barkskins. Ren� suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest ... continue
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Das grüne Akkordeon by Annie Proulx DE
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Die Odysse eines Akkordeons durch 100 Jahre amerikanische Geschichte.
Ein grünes Akkordeon, 1890 in Sizilien gefertigt, gelangt mit seinem ersten Besitzer nach Amerika. Fast 100 Jahre lang erlebt es eine Odyssee durch den Kontinent, wird gestohlen, verkauft, verpfändet und verschenkt und begleitet die Nachfahren verschiedener Einwanderersippen auf ihrer Suche nach einem besseren Leben. Der Roman, voll Musik und Leidenschaft, voll Schmerz und Gewalt, erzählt von der Geschichte Amerikas und vom Schicksal der Menschen, die es schufen.
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The Shipping News by Annie Proulx EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Annie Proulx's highly acclaimed, international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. When his no-good wife is killed in a spectacular road accident, Quoyle heads for the land of his forefathers - the remotest corner of far-flung Newfoundland. With 'the aunt' and his delinquent daughters - Bunny and Sunshine - in tow, Quoyle finds himself part of an unfolding, exhilarating Atlantic drama. 'The Shipping News' is an irresistible comedy of human life and possibility.
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