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(0)Annie Proulx
Author
Series
Wyoming stories volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pioneer homesteaders facing drought and debt give way to modern-day hippies trying to lose themselves in the vanishing wilderness and real estate developers out to make a buck-unforgettable characters in nine stories that range in tone from crude cowboy humor to heartbreaking American tragedy.
3) Barkskins
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"Bark Skins open in New France in the late 18th century as Rene Sel, an illiterate woodsman makes his way from Northern France to the homeland to seek a living. Bound to a "seigneur" for three years in exchange for land, he suffers extraordinary hardship and violence, always in awe of the forest he is charged with clearing. In the course of this epic novel, Proulx tells the stories of Rene's children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, as well...
Author
Series
Wyoming stories volume 2
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
219 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Wyoming stories volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
283 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
538 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Assigned to locate land in the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma that can be converted into pig farms for his employer, a young man meets the residents of Woolybucket and comes to respect their fierce desire to retain their land.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
196 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx - whose novels are infused with her knowledge and deep concern for the earth - comes an urgent and riveting history of wetlands, their ecological role and how the loss of them threatens the planet. Fens, bogs, swamps and marine estuaries are the earth's most desirable and dependable resources, and in four illuminating parts Proulx documents the emergence of their systemic destruction in the pursuit of profit...
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's 1963, a time in the United States when life was simple, straightforward and the lines between the sexes and sex roles were crisply drawn and severely delineated. Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist find themselves thrown together when they are hired to tend sheep in the remote area of Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming. Because of the job, the two are forced to spend many hours together alone in the wild. Ennis and Jack are inexorably drawn to each other through...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (8 hr., 30 min.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
"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. From the novel's startling first paragraph to its very last word, Thomas Savage's voice -- and the intense passion and cruelty of his characters -- holds listeners in thrall." -- From container.