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From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx comes a stellar collection of short stories set in Wyoming.

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Includes an introduction to the life of Carl Mydans and 50 evocative images selected from his work for the FSA.

FICTION / Short Stories (single author)

Now in paperback, the the dazzling and acclaimed final installment of the Wyoming Stories from the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Proulx.

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This is story of Loyal Blood, a man who spends a lifetime on the run from a crime so terrible that it renders him forever incapable of touching a woman.

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Grapes are among the most desirable and best-known fruits, prized for their beauty, their succulence and varied flavors, their noble metamorphosis into wine, and their more utilitarian roles as sources of fresh juice and tasty jellies. For most growers, the triumph of harvesting fragrant clusters of dusky-bloomed grapes in rose, blue-black, amber, purple, or light red bunches is its own reward--a test of gardening skill.In Great Grapes, you'll...

Since the 1973 publication of Storey's first Country Wisdom Bulletin, our commitment to preserving the arts, crafts, and skills of country life has never wavered. We now have more than 200 titles in this series of 32-page publications, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life. Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins contain practical, hands-on in...

En estos once relatos protagonizados por una extraordinaria variedad de personajes, Annie Proulx, la prestigiosa escritora estadounidense ganadora del Pulitzer, nos transmite, con una prosa lírica aunque a veces truculenta, su visión de la América profunda mediante el retrato de la vida en Wyoming. El relato que da título a la obra, ¿Brokeback Mountain¿, convertido ahora por el director Ang Lee en la película ganadora del León de Oro en el Fes...

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Electronic Inspection Copy available for instructors Providing conceptual and practical foundations in scale construction and psychometrics for producers and consumers of social/personality research, this guide covers basic principles, practices, and processes in scale construction, scale evaluation, scale use, and interpretation of research results in the context of psychological measurement. It explains fundamental concepts and methods r...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, "The Shipping News" is a celebration of Annie Proulx's genius for storytelling and her vigorous contribution to the art of the novel. 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 deserts. An aunt convinces...

Two handsomely produced editions of this award-winning story coincide with the release of the major independent film directed by Ang Lee and starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger.

The acclaimed debut collection of short stories--enhanced by two never-before-published works--by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News.

Bird Cloud is the name Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and 400-foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. Her first work of nonfiction in more than 20 years, "Bird Cloud" is the story of designing and constructing that house--with its solar panels, Japanese soak tub, concrete floor and elk horn handles on kitchen cabinets. 256 pp. 100, 000 print.

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 G...