Лучшие книги Энни Пру

После гибели жены журналист Куойл решает бросить Нью-Йорк и вместе с дочерьми и теткой Агнис отправляется на землю своих предков - отдаленный уголок острова Ньюфаундленд. Здесь он погружается в мир суровой природы, полную опасностей и трудностей жизнь местных рыбаков, жизнь, совсем не похожую на ту, что была у него в Нью-Йорке. И если поначалу Куойл ощущает себя лишь наблюдателем происходящих событий, то со временем он становится их участником, а остров - частью его самого. И именно здесь Куойлу суждено найти себя, друзей и настоящее счастье… Роман лег в основу одноименного фильма с Кевином Спейси, Джулианной Мур, Кейт Бланшетт и Джуди…

Сборник рассказов Энни Прул, лауреата Пулицеровской премии (1994), автора романа "Корабельные новости" (2005), - это история непростой жизни обитателей северного штата Вайоминг. Каждый из них доказывает свое право на жизнь. Один из рассказов, "Горбатая гора", лег в основу сценария оскаровского блокбастера известного режиссера Энга Ли.

1963年夏、ワイオミング州ブロークバック・マウンテンで出会ったイニスとジャック。野営しながら羊の行動牧畜の仕事をする間に芽生えた親密さは危険な一線を越えた。4年後、互いに暮らせた思いは一気に噴出する。タブーを犯した真率な世間や家族の目を逃れた大自然の奥深くに隠れ家を求める他ない。米西部を背景に同性愛の悲劇を描いた2006年ゴールデングローブ賞4部門受賞映画原作。

Роман Э.Энни Пру "Грехи аккордеона" - волшебная сага, охватывающая всю историю минувшего столетия и целого континента, бесспорный шедевр мистического реализма, подлинная энциклопедия культурных влияний множества этносов, из которых сложилась американская нация. Широкая панорама действующих лиц и сокровищница историй, рассказанных автором, поставили книгу в ряд выдающихся достижений мировой эпической литературы XX века. Современный американский классик Эдна Энни Пру - лауреат Пулитцеровской и Национальной книжной премий и премии Фолкнера, присуждаемой Международным ПЕН-клубом. Роман "Грехи аккордеона" публикуется на русском языке впервые.

В 1944 году Лоял Блад тайно хоронит тело случайно убитой им подруги на каменистом склоне холма в Вермонте и пускается в бега...

Вся его дальнейшая жизнь — бессмысленные и бесцельные скитания по американскому Западу длиной в сорок лет, случайные заработки, панический страх полюбить, остепениться…

Единственный контакт с семьей и прошлым — открытки без обратного адреса. Лоял шлет их снова и снова, даже не зная, насколько все изменилось на его родине и есть ли еще, кому читать эти открытки...

In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a “seigneur,” for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters—barkskins. René suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a Mi’kmaw woman and their descendants live trapped between two inimical cultures. But Duquet, crafty and ruthless, runs away from the seigneur, becomes a fur trader, then sets up a timber business. Proulx tells the stories of the descendants of Sel and Duquet over three hundred years—their travels across North America, to Europe, China, and New Zealand, under stunningly brutal conditions—the revenge of rivals, accidents, pestilence, Indian attacks, and cultural annihilation. Over and over again, they seize what they can of a presumed infinite resource, leaving the modern-day characters face to face with possible ecological collapse.

Proulx’s inimitable genius is her creation of characters who are so vivid—in their greed, lust, vengefulness, or their simple compassion and hope—that we follow them with fierce attention. Annie Proulx is one of the most formidable and compelling American writers, and Barkskins is her greatest novel, a magnificent marriage of history and imagination.

Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, Brokeback Mountain is her masterpiece.

Brokeback Mountain was originally published in The New Yorker. It won the National Magazine Award, as well as an O. Henry Prize. Included in this volume is Annie Proulx's haunting story about the difficult, dangerous love affair between a ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy. Also included is the celebrated screenplay for the major motion picture Brokeback Mountain, written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. All three writers have contributed essays on the process of adapting this critically acclaimed story for film.

A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important role they play in preserving the environment—by storing the carbon emissions that accelerate climate change. Fens, bogs, swamps, and marine estuaries are crucial to the earth’s survival, and in four illuminating parts, Proulx documents their systemic destruction in pursuit of profit.

In a vivid and revelatory journey through history, Proulx describes the fens of 16th-century England, Canada’s Hudson Bay lowlands, Russia’s Great Vasyugan Mire, and America’s Okeefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. She introduces the early explorers who launched the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, and writes of the diseases spawned in the wetlands—the Ague, malaria, Marsh Fever.

A sobering look at the degradation of wetlands over centuries and the serious ecological consequences, this is “an unforgettable and unflinching tour of past and present, fixed on a subject that could not be more important” (Bill McKibben).

“A stark but beautifully written Silent Spring –style warning from one of our greatest novelists.” — The Christian Science Monitor

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx follows the success of Close Range with another remarkable collection of short stories set in Wyoming.Bad Dirt is filled with the vivid and willful characters for which Proulx has become known. Each occupies a community or landscape described in rich and robust language, with an eye for detail unparalleled in American fiction.In ‘The Contest’, the men of Elk Tooth, Wyoming, vow to put aside their razors for two seasons and wait to see who has the longest beard come the 4th of July. Deb Sipple, the moving protagonist of ‘That Trickle Down Effect’, finds that his opportunism – and his smoking habit – lead to a massive destruction. And ‘What Kind of Furniture Would Jesus Pick?’ is the story of Gilbert Wolfscale, whose rabid devotion to his ranch drives off his wife and sons.Proulx displays her wit in every story of this stunning collection, as well as her knowledge of the West, of history, of ranching and farming. Her profound sympathy for characters who must use sheer will and courage to make it in tough territory makes this collection extraordinarily compelling.

In the far-flung settlements of New England, life resolves around hunting. On the high, wooded hillsides there are deer to be stalked; upriver there are quiet pools of trout, grouse to be shot and traplines to be laid for fur. But the old ways are threatened and the community faces inevitable change.

Whether they're out-of-towners who think country life is improving, or natives who know that it isn't, the men and women of these stories are all searching for something better. These are people who dream useless dreams, and go on dreaming whatever the disappointments.

Tough, tender and irresistibly humorous, Heart Songs takes the reader on a trail through the great outdoors to the innermost places of the heart.