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A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important role they play in preserving the environment—by storing the carbon emissions that accelerate climate change. Fens, bogs, swamps, and marine estuaries are crucial to the earth’s survival, and in four illuminating parts, Proulx documents their systemic destruction in pursuit of profit.

In a vivid and revelatory journey through history, Proulx describes the fens of 16th-century England, Canada’s Hudson Bay lowlands, Russia’s Great Vasyugan Mire, and America’s Okeefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. She introduces the early explorers who launched the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, and writes of the diseases spawned in the wetlands—the Ague, malaria, Marsh Fever.

A sobering look at the degradation of wetlands over centuries and the serious ecological consequences, this is “an unforgettable and unflinching tour of past and present, fixed on a subject that could not be more important” (Bill McKibben).

“A stark but beautifully written Silent Spring –style warning from one of our greatest novelists.” — The Christian Science Monitor

В 1944 году Лоял Блад тайно хоронит тело случайно убитой им подруги на каменистом склоне холма в Вермонте и пускается в бега... Вся его дальнейшая жизнь — бессмысленные и бесцельные скитания по американскому Западу длиной в сорок лет, случайные заработки, панический страх полюбить, остепениться… Единственный контакт с семьей и прошлым — открытки без обратного адреса. Лоял шлет их снова и снова, даже не зная, насколько все изменилось на его родине и есть ли еще, кому читать эти открытки...

После гибели жены журналист Куойл решает бросить Нью-Йорк и вместе с дочерьми и теткой Агнис отправляется на землю своих предков - отдаленный уголок острова Ньюфаундленд. Здесь он погружается в мир суровой природы, полную опасностей и трудностей жизнь местных рыбаков, жизнь, совсем не похожую на ту, что была у него в Нью-Йорке. И если поначалу Куойл ощущает себя лишь наблюдателем происходящих событий, то со временем он становится их участником, а остров - частью его самого. И именно здесь Куойлу суждено найти себя, друзей и настоящее счастье… Роман лег в основу одноименного фильма с Кевином Спейси, Джулианной Мур, Кейт Бланшетт и Джуди…

После гибели жены журналист Куойл решает бросить Нью-Йорк и вместе с дочерьми и теткой Агнис отправляется на землю своих предков — отдаленный уголок острова Ньюфаундленд. Здесь он погружается в мир суровой природы, полную опасностей и трудностей жизнь местных рыбаков, жизнь, совсем не похожую на ту, что была у него в Нью-Йорке. И если поначалу Куойл ощущает себя лишь наблюдателем происходящих событий, то со временем он становится их участником, а остров — частью его самого. И именно здесь Куойлу суждено найти себя, друзей и настоящее счастье… Роман лег в основу одноименного фильма с Кевином Спейси, Джулианной Мур, Кейт Бланшетт и…

Kroniki portowe to opowieść o człowieku, który na zapomnianej wyspie odnajduje swoją tożsamość i odzyskuje utracone w dzieciństwie poczucie własnej wartości. To także rozgrywająca się na surowych, mroźnych wybrzeżach Nowej Fundlandii historia o tym, że do odwrócenia kolei losu nie zawsze trzeba wielkich rewolucji, tylko wystarczy dać się ponieść sprzyjającym nurtom.

Annie Proulx jest autorką dziesięciu książek. Wśród jej wielu wyróżnień znajdują się Nagroda Pulitzera, National Book Award, The Irish Times International Fiction Prize oraz PEN/Faulkner Award. Jej opowiadanie "Tajemnice Brokeback Mountain" stało się kanwą nagrodzonego Oscarami filmu. Jej najnowszą powieścią są Drwale.

Kroniki portowe to opowieść o człowieku, który na zapomnianej wyspie odnajduje swoją tożsamość i odzyskuje utracone w dzieciństwie poczucie własnej wartości. To także rozgrywająca się na surowych, mroźnych wybrzeżach Nowej Fundlandii historia o tym, że do odwrócenia kolei losu nie zawsze trzeba wielkich rewolucji, tylko wystarczy dać się ponieść sprzyjającym nurtom.
Annie Proulx jest autorką dziesięciu książek. Wśród jej wielu wyróżnień znajdują się Nagroda Pulitzera, National Book Award, The Irish Times International Fiction Prize oraz PEN/Faulkner Award. Jej opowiadanie „Tajemnice Brokeback Mountain” stało się kanwą nagrodzonego Oscarami filmu. Jej najnowszą powieścią są Drwale.

"Kroniki portowe" to opowieść o człowieku, który na zapomnianej wyspie odnajduje swoją tożsamość i odzyskuje utracone w dzieciństwie poczucie własnej wartości. To także rozgrywająca się na surowych, mroźnych wybrzeżach Nowej Fundlandii historia o tym, że do odwrócenia kolei losu nie zawsze trzeba wielkich rewolucji, tylko wystarczy dać się ponieść sprzyjającym nurtom.

In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, René 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. René suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a Mi’kmaw woman and their descendants live trapped between two inimical cultures. But Duquet, crafty and ruthless, runs away from the seigneur, becomes a fur trader, then sets up a timber business. Proulx tells the stories of the descendants of Sel and Duquet over three hundred years—their travels across North America, to Europe, China, and New Zealand, under stunningly brutal conditions—the revenge of rivals, accidents, pestilence, Indian attacks, and cultural annihilation. Over and over again, they seize what they can of a presumed infinite resource, leaving the modern-day characters face to face with possible ecological collapse.

In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, René 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. René suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a Mi’kmaw woman and their descendants live trapped between two inimical cultures. But Duquet, crafty and ruthless, runs away from the seigneur, becomes a fur trader, then sets up a timber business. Proulx tells the stories of the descendants of Sel and Duquet over three hundred years—their travels across North America, to Europe, China, and New Zealand, under stunningly brutal conditions—the revenge of rivals, accidents, pestilence, Indian attacks, and cultural annihilation. Over and over again, they seize what they can of a presumed infinite resource, leaving the modern-day characters face to face with possible ecological collapse.

Proulx’s inimitable genius is her creation of characters who are so vivid—in their greed, lust, vengefulness, or their simple compassion and hope—that we follow them with fierce attention. Annie Proulx is one of the most formidable and compelling American writers, and Barkskins is her greatest novel, a magnificent marriage of history and imagination.

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.

Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips,” is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters to return with her to the starkly beautiful coastal landscape of their ancestral home in Newfoundland. Here, on desolate Quoyle’s Point, in a house empty except for a few mementos of the family’s unsavory past, the battered members of three generations try to cobble up new lives. Newfoundland is a country of coast and cove where the…

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…

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.

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…

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.

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In the far-flung settlements of New England, life resolves around hunting. On the high, wooded hillsides there are deer to be stalked; upriver there are quiet pools of trout, grouse to be shot and traplines to be laid for fur. But the old ways are threatened and the community faces inevitable change.

Whether they're out-of-towners who think 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, Heart Songs takes the reader on a trail through the great outdoors to the innermost places of the heart.

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.

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.

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.

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 nine dazzling stories about multiple generations of Americans struggling through life in the West. Each character is a pioneer of a sort—some are billionaires, some are escapists, and some just think the rest of the country has it wrong. Deeply sympathetic to the men and women fighting to survive in this harsh place, Proulx turns their lives into fiction with the power of myth, leaving the reader in awe.