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''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.

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.

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

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.

Film tie-in edition of the story by Annie Proulx, now a movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Randy Quaid, Anne Hathaway and Heath Ledger. Brokeback Mountain is set in the beautiful, wild landscape of Wyoming where cowboys live as they have done for generations. Hard, lonely lives in unforgiving country. Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar are two ranch hands -- ''drop-out country boys with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, both rough-mannered, tough spoken'' -- glad to have found each other''s company where none had been expected. But companionship becomes something else on Brokeback Mountain, something not looked for, something deadly.

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 vision de la America profunda mediante el retrato de la vida en Wyoming. El relato que da titulo a la obra, Brokeback Mountain, convertido ahora por el director Ang Lee en la pelicula ganadora del Leon de Oro en el Festival de Venecia, narra la historia de Ennis y Jack, dos vaqueros que entablan una relacion mas alla de la amistad. A lo largo de los años y las frecuentes separaciones su relacion se convierte en una historia de amor que consigue sobrevivir a todo. A todo salvo a la violenta intolerancia del mundo.

Brokeback Mountain : un bout de terre sauvage, hors du temps, dans les plaines du Wyoming. Ennis del Mar et jack Twist, cow-boys, nomades du désert américain, saisonniers des ranchs, n''ont pas vingt ans. Ils se croisent le temps d''un ete. La rencontre est fulgurante. Ni le temps, ni l''espace, ni les non-dits, ni la societe n''auront raison de cet amour - que seule brisera la mort. Le recit dechirant d''une passion, au cur des grands espaces americains, ces somptueuses solitudes dont Annie Proulx est sans conteste l''ecrivain le plus inspire dans la litterature americaine contemporaine. Pour Ang Lee, realisateur du film adapte du livre, Le secret de Brokeback Mountain qui a obtenu le Lion d''or 2005 a la Mostra de Venise, c''est " une grande histoire d''amour, une complicite totale et honnete entre deux etres ".