Annie Proulx

Una trepidante epopeya que recorre tres siglos de venganzas, infamias y aventuras, con la explotación maderera como telón de fondo.A finales del siglo XVII, René Sel y Charles Duquet, peones contratados para cortar madera, desembarcan en Canada, conocido entonces como Nueva Francia, con un magro contrato para trabajar en durisimas condiciones en las tierras de un despota colono frances. Mientras Duquet, astuto y taimado, cae enfermo y escapa de esa esclavitud para acabar dedicandose al comercio de pieles y, finalmente, de madera, Rene, sensible a su entorno, se queda en la plantacion y sobrevive a su amo, unido a una india mayor que el. Pese a que los destinos de ambos se anuncian tragicos, sus sucesores, a lo largo de tres siglos, seguiran ligados a lo que cuando sus antepasados llegaron eran unos bosques sin limites, aparentemente inagotables. El bosque infinito sigue a los intrepidos descendientes de Rene y Charles hasta la actualidad, en un viaje a traves de Norteamerica, Europa, China y Nueva Zelanda: una aventura llena de peligros, venganzas, aniquilacion cultural y amor por las tradiciones indias, en una novela que explora no solo las relaciones entre los pueblos (indios y colonos; franceses, ingleses y norteamericanos; Oriente y Occidente), sino tambien la implacable destruccion de la naturaleza por el hombre.

Quoyle e un giornalista di terz'ordine che vive a Brooklyn. Un giorno viene licenziato e sua moglie gli telefona dall'Alabama per dirgli di trovarsi un'altra donna, lasciandolo solo, senza soldi e con due figlie a carico. Ma quando il mondo sta per crollargli addosso, Quoyle decide, una volta tanto, di optare per una scelta coraggiosa: con le due figlie prende il primo traghetto per Terranova, per andare a vivere ai confini della realta, in un paese coperto di neve quasi tutto l'anno. Qui, tra mille affanni, Quoyle riesce ad aprire un giornale per i pescatori e rifarsi una vita.

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week A subject that could not be more important A compact classic Bill McKibben I learned something new and found something amazing on every page Anthony Doerr author of All the Light We Cannot SeeFrom 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 and the consequent release of their stored carbon Wide ranging and idiosyncratic Proulx s explanation of wetlands takes readers to the fens of sixteenth century England Canada s Hudson Bay Lowlands Russia s Great Vasyugan Mire and America s Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and introduces the nineteenth century explorers who launched the ravaging of the Amazon rainforest Proulx was born in the 1930s a time as she says when in the ever continuing name of progress Western countries busily raped their own and other countries of minerals timber fish and wildlife Fen Bog & Swamp is both a

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Magnificent Guardian Remarkable A compact classic Bill McKibben I learned something new and found something amazing on every page Anthony Doerr author of All the Light We Cannot SeeFens bogs swamps and marine estuaries are the earth s most desirable and dependable resources Here Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the vitally important role they play in preserving the environment and their systemic destruction in the pursuit of profit Travelling from the fens of sixteenth century England to America s Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge Fen Bog and Swamp is both a revelatory history and an urgent plea for wetland reclamation from one of our greatest prose stylists A rousing call to action Esquire Sparklingly furious it has a profoundly positive message Richard Mabey Telegraph This haunting tribute is a pleasure to read Financial Times

''Contundentes... [Unos relatos] que hay que leer por su rigurosa autenticidad y su lenguaje, irónica poesía de la soledad y el dolor.'' The New York Times ''La geografía, espléndida y terrible, es la deidad tutelar de los personajes de En terreno vedado. Sus vidas son una vana lucha contra los elementos que se desarrolla como incontrolable caida en picado. Proulx escribe sobre ellos con una prosa violenta, impactante y controlada hasta el punto de llegar al borde del precipicio y estar a punto de despeñarse.'' Richard Eder, The New York Times Book Review ''La pluma de Proulx tiene la brutal belleza de una ventisca de Wyoming.'' Michael Knight, The Wall Street Journal ''Relatos valientes y solidos de amores, dolores y resignacion para sufrir las consecuencias. Nadie escribe asi, y Proulx nunca ha escrito mejor.'' Kirkus Reviews Ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y autora de obras con gran exito de publico como Atando cabos y Los crimenes del acordeon, Annie Proulx nos ofrece ahora una de las mejores colecciones de relatos de nuestros tiempos. La maestria con que Proulx domina el lenguaje y su impetuoso amor por las tierras de Wyoming brillan en estos soberbios relatos transitados por la soledad, la violencia desatada y los amores de genero equivoco. Cada uno de los deslumbrantes retratos de En terreno vedado revela a unos personajes forjados a golpes de precision y elegancia. Son estas historias de desesperacion y extraños entusiasmos, situadas en un paisaje desolado y majestuoso... de la pluma de una autora en el mejor momento de su carrera. Annie Proulx es la prestigiosa autora de la coleccion de relatos Canciones del corazon y de tres novelas: Postales, Atandos cabos y Los crimenes del acordeon. Sus obras se han traducido a veinte idiomas. Ganadora del Premio Pulitzer, del National Book Award, el Premio Internacional de Narrativa del Irish Times y el Premio de Narrativa PEN/Faulkner, vive y escribe en Wyoming.

From one of the great writers of our time comes a collection of award-winning stories about loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love. Her masterful language and vast love of the West are evident in these stunning portraits which have appeared in "The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly" and "Harper's."

A darkly comic portrait of human life and possibility. Quoyle is a hopeless hack journalist working in New York. When his two-timing wife dies in a road accident, he retreats to his ancestral home on the coast of Newfoundland where he must confront the unpredictable forces of nature and society.

Annie Proulx''s first novel, which received huge acclaim and marked the launch of an outstanding literary career. ''Postcards'' is the 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. The odyssey begins on a freezing Vermont hillside in 1944 and propels Blood across the American West for forty years. Denied love and unable to settle, he lives a hundred different lives: mining gold, growing beans, hunting fossils, trapping, prospecting for uranium and ranching. His only contact with his past is through a series of postcards he sends home -- not realising that in his absence disaster has befallen his family, and their deep-rooted connection with the land has been severed with devastating consequences!

The new novel from Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx, author of THE SHIPPING NEWS. A richly textured story of one man's struggle to make good in the inhospitable ranch country of the Texas panhandle, told with razor wit and a masterly sense of place. Some folks in the Texas panhandle do not like hog farms. But Bob Dollar, the newly-hired hog site scout for Global Pork Rind, intends to do his job. He is also determined not to turn out like his parents who left him on his Uncle Tam's doorstep as a child. And he is afflicted by the tendency to believe his own daydreams - to the point of forgetting that he made them up in the first place. Bob ends up in Woolybucket, a town whose idiosyncratic inhabitants have ridden out all manner of booms and busts in panhandle country-cattle ranching, tornadoes, dust storms, gas and oil days, feedlot proliferation. These tough men and women seem to grow stronger with age, seasoned by the rigours of their life, from ancient Freda Beautyrooms who controls a ranch Bob covets, to Ace Crouch, the windmiller who defies the hog farms. They aren't the only obstacles in Bob's path. As he settles in at La Von Fronk's bunkhouse and lends a hand at Cy Frease's Old Dog Cafe, Bob is forced to question everything. With characteristic gusto and razor wit, Annie Proulx serves up a rich mix of history, landscape and quixotic Texan life in this novel about chasing dreams in a corporate world.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ''The Shipping News'' comes a collection of short stories inspired by the harsh and unforgiving landscape of Wyoming. Throughout the collection, Annie Proulx invests these stories with an intelligence and black humour that transforms them into something new and surprising. In one story, a slight young man defies his mother''s insults to become a rodeo star, while in another, an octogenarian finds himself drawn back to the ranch that he quit decades before -- against his better judgement. Elsewhere, Proulx demonstrates her taste for the macabre in a grisly tale of bad weather, gambling and amputation set a hundred years ago. Inventive, compassionate and wildly funny, these marvellous stories explore the unbreakable bond between a people and their land