From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes one of the most celebrated short-story collections of our time. Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in these breathtaking tales of loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love. Each of the stunning portraits in Close Range ...(展开全部)

A remarkable collection of short stories set in Wyoming from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Shipping News' and 'Brokeback Mountain'. 'Bad Dirt' is filled with the vivid and willful characters for which Proulx has become known. Each story occupies a community or landscape described in rich and robust language, with an eye for detail unparalleled in American fiction. ...(展开全部)

A remarkable collection of short stories set in Wyoming from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Shipping News' and 'Brokeback Mountain'. 'Bad Dirt' is filled with the vivid and willful characters for which Proulx has become known. Each occupies a community or landscape described in rich and robust language, with an eye for detail unparalleled in American fiction. In 'T...(展开全部)

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 b...(展开全部)

Returning to the territory of "Brokeback Mountain" (in her first volume of Wyoming Stories) and Bad Dirt (her second), National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx delivers a stunning and visceral new collection. In Fine Just the Way It Is, she has expanded the limits of the form. Her stories about multiple generations of Americans struggling through life in the W...(展开全部)

The fantastic new collection of stories from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Shipping News' and 'Brokeback Mountain'. 'Fine Just The Way It Is' marks Annie Proulx's return to the Wyoming of 'Brokeback Mountain' and the familiar cast of hardy, unsentimental prairie folk. The stories are cast over centuries, and capture the voices and lives of the settlers this sagebru...(展开全部)

以Postcards和《真情快遞》拿下美國筆會/福克納小說獎、美國國家書卷獎以及普立茲獎等多項文學獎的作家安妮‧普露，大概是近十年來美國最受推崇的女作家。她的作品文字奇特，故事動人，是電影最喜歡的改編材料。 本書收錄以懷俄明州為背景的11則短篇，其中三篇獲選入《年度最佳美國短篇小說集》，兩篇獲得歐‧亨利短篇小說獎。 安妮．普露在這本描寫孤寂、火爆性格和錯愛的小說集中顯現了熟練出色的文字和對懷俄明狂烈的摯愛。〈腳下泥巴〉描寫一個套牛牧人深陷在家庭和自我獨立間的漸深裂痕中，卻無法擺脫出來。〈半剝皮的閹牛〉描寫一位上了年紀的蠢駕駛，為了參加哥哥的喪禮而開車前往出生地牧場，卻在離家一哩處喪生。 〈斷背山〉描寫兩個西部牛仔的同志戀情。本文改編的同名電影，由李安導演，獲2005年義大利影展金獅獎最佳影片。 整本小說集亦獲紐約客最佳小說獎等三項大獎。描寫懷俄明州殘...(展开全部)

Close up is right! Klein put a wide-angle lens on his camera, headed for any crowd he could find, and got as close as he could. He decided not to worry about graininess, blurriness, depth of field, and other technical considerations but to go for a spontaneous feel. He got it. These double-page, black-and-white photos are overflowing with people--blurry, grainy, and out of focu...(展开全部)

""Birchfield Close" is comics as a theme, a mood, poetry perhaps. Evoking so much, saying little on the surface, yet what the reader takes away is a profound sense of wonder. Beautiful."--Forbidden Planet In his first graphic novella, Jon McNaught captures the beauty and peacefulness of our childhood neighborhoods and transports us back to those clear evenings dotted with pink ...(展开全部)

Close up is right! Klein put a wide-angle lens on his camera, headed for any crowd he could find, and got as close as he could. He decided not to worry about graininess, blurriness, depth of field, and other technical considerations but to go for a spontaneous feel. He got it. These double-page, black-and-white photos are overflowing with people--blurry, grainy, and out of focu...(展开全部)