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
- ISBN10 0060972793
- ISBN13 9780060972790
- Publish Date 1 February 1990 (first published 1 October 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 October 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harper Perennial
- Edition Perennial Library ed.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 151
- Language English