Annie Proulx

In the late 17th century, two young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters — barkskins....

At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer....

At 36, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife gets her just desserts....

Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole is told through the eyes of Bob Dollar, a young Denver man trying to make good in a bad world....

Set in 1920s Montana, this compelling domestic drama tells the story of two brothers - and of the woman and young boy, mother and son, whose arrival on the brothers' ranch shatters an already tenuous peace....

Proulx's characters try to climb out of poverty and desperation but get cut down as if the land itself wanted their blood....

Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love....

A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary American family, The Shipping News shows why E. Annie Proulx is recognized as...

Accordion Crimes opens in 1890 in Sicily as an accordion maker completes his finest instrument and dreams of owning a music store in America....

In the late 17th century, two illiterate woodsmen, Rene Sel and Charles Duquet, make their way from Northern France to New France to seek a living....