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| Original Title: | Heart Songs and Other Stories |
| ISBN: | 0020360754 (ISBN13: 9780020360759) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Annie Proulx
Paperback | Pages: 203 pages Rating: 3.94 | 2039 Users | 143 Reviews
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| Title | : | Heart Songs and Other Stories |
| Author | : | Annie Proulx |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 203 pages |
| Published | : | March 17th 1995 by Scribner (first published October 1988) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fiction. Literary Fiction |
Narrative To Books Heart Songs and Other Stories
Before she wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx was already producing some of the finest short fiction in the country. Here are her collected stories, including two new works never before anthologized.These stories reverberate with rural tradition, the rites of nature, and the rituals of small-town life. The country is blue-collar New England; the characters are native families and the dispossessed working class, whose heritage is challenged by the neorural bourgeoisie from the city; and the themes are as elemental as the landscape: revenge, malice, greed, passion. Told with skill and profundity and crafted by a master storyteller, these are lean, tough tales of an extraordinary place and its people.
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Ratings: 3.94 From 2039 Users | 143 ReviewsComment On Out Of Books Heart Songs and Other Stories
BOOK: Magnificent NE USA stories.. Critic: "..bites like hard cider. I'm wild for it. I wish it was three times as long"Book 13Heart SongsAnnie Proulx19883/5Annie Proulx's Close Range: Wyoming Stories was probably the best thing I've read all year last year. This collection, published eleven years earlier, not so much. It's not that it is overly descriptive and dense and therefore demanding, because this is still Annie Proulx, one of America's finest contemporary writers, it just seems to lack depth. These characters live hard lives in rough conditions and if we are to spend time in their company we might as well
This should be subtitled "Northeastern Rednecks on Parade"! I thought this kind of people only came from the South! She sure knows how to create memorable dysfunctional characters.These stories take place in rural Vermont among what I guess you'd call hillbillies. Kind of creepy people with long, weird family histories in the area. Some of the stories also involve rich city people who move to the area with glamorous notions of how it's going to be. Before long they find out how wrong they were.
Heart Songs and Other stories is Annie Proulxs first short story collection and although I didnt enjoy it quite as much as That Old Ace in the Hole and Fine Just the Way it is, it contains enough that is quintessentially Proulx that it was still a good read.In this collection, it seems as though Proulx is more focused on outsiders to the rural areas of Wyoming where most of her stories are set. Summer hunting and fishing vacationers, rich interlopers who build palatial homes taking advantage, or
According to what I had read, the author's prose was described as dry, plain, harsh; this book turned out to be quite the opposite. I do not enjoy grandiloquent prose with three or four adjectives or the ceaseless recurrence of metaphors, it is not really my style, even less in this collection of dull stories which have little or plot at all, not even the one who gives the book a title. It is pretty much a sequence of scenes without any direction. If this serves as some sort of postcard to the
I'd felt an aversion to Proulx's books ever since I saw Kevin Spacey in the movie version of her "Shipping News". I didn't dislike Kevin Spacey nor the movie, and the book had been highly recommended by a friend; it was just one of those unexplained, unexplored things. Then I picked up 'Heart Songs and Other Stories' at the Salvation Army for 50 cents, and one night I opened it. It was dark and quiet in the room, and in the second paragraph of the first story ("On the Antler") I read this:"He
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