Heart Songs
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Just outside town, beyond the drugstore and the diner, there's another world тАУ a wilderness тАУ waiting to be explored. On the high, wooded hillsides there are deer to be stalked; far upriver there are quiet pools of trout, and grouse to be shot and traplines to be laid for fur. In the far-flung settlements of New England, life revolves around hunting.
Whether they are yuppies from the town who think that country life is improving or natives who know all too well that it isn't, the men and women of these stories are all hunting for something better тАУ though getting by at all is hard enough. These are men and women who live, love and lose; men and women who fall apart and who pick up the pieces, who dream useless dreams and go on dreaming whatever the disappointments.
Tough and tender and irresistibly humorous, this unforgettable book takes its reader on a trail through the great outdoors to the innermost places of the heart.
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Annie Proulx published her first novel тАШPostcardsтАЩ in 1991 at the age of 56. тАШThe Shipping NewsтАЩ won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Award and the Irish Times International Prize. Her third novel, тАШAccordion CrimesтАЩ, was published in 1996. She is also the author of three short-story collections, тАШHeart SongsтАЩ (1994), тАШClose RangeтАЩ (1999) and тАШBad DirtтАЩ (2004). тАШBrokeback MountainтАЩ was made into an Oscar-winning film in 2005. тАШFine Just the Way It IsтАЩ, her third collection of Wyoming short stories, was published in 2008.
