Author: annieproulx

A New York Times bestseller! In this “monumental” novel (The Wall Street Journal) following generations of a logging dynasty, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Shipping News delivers “the masterpiece [she] was meant to write” (The Boston Globe).

An “extraordinary” Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner (Publishers Weekly) with nearly 40,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads: A third-rate reporter, his strong-willed aunt, and his two daughters seek new lives in their ancestral home in this “lyric page-turner” (Chicago Tribune).

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. Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they’re working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is … casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer. Both men work hard, marry, and have kids because that’s what cowboys do. But over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes…