On 09December 2014, I created a folder for the following. You can look them up. Annie Proulx's memoir is the one that added the most new words to my vocabulary: cadastral, migmatite, Newfoundland’s Wreckhouse winds, ooids, piece-sur-piece, scorbutic, talavera, tatami, tuckamore, volant.Sentences ...
fragmentOpowiadanie jest takie surowe, można by powiedzieć, że źle napisane, ale moim zdaniem ten styl (zwłaszcza w tym przypadku) ma swój urok i mi pasuje. To dobre opowiadanie. Takie inne."W tej jednak chwili przepełnia go radość, ponieważ Jack Twist pojawił mu się we śnie.""Ennis obudził się o...
This is my first Proulx, so I didn't know if the unusual writing style is typical, or specially chosen for this particular story. I hope it's the latter, as it works very well. Update: I've now read Close Range: Brokeback Mountain and Other stories (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...), whic...
Yep, this book was totally awesome. I had already read one book by the not-so-illustrious (though not rightfully so) Annie Proulx, and I already knew I liked her writing style very much. Rich use of vocabulary, and wonderful images, as well as beautiful descriptions. She also has a very fine ear ...
So from the beginning Annie Proulx has had a talent for cramming distinct details of place into her stories. It's telling that she began in hunting magazines like 'Gray's Sporting Journal', since the flora and fauna are so prevalent in most of her works. And the beauty of writing about an anima...
Why have so few of my GR friends reviewed this brilliant book by such a well-known author? Note: The first two pages have a rather brutal scene (though the details are vague), but there's nothing else like that in the rest of the book, and everything that follows, arises from this incident.This ...
Po ukończeniu lektury “Kronik portowych” w ciemno sięgnąłem po kilka kolejnych książek Annie Proulx, wychodząc z założenia, że z pewnością nie będą kiepskie. Poleżały trochę na półce, przyszedł czas na lekturę… i po lekturze “Asa w rękawie” kompletnie nie mam pojęcia jak o książce opowiedzieć. Id...
Generations struggle in the American frontier West. "Every ranch...had lost a boy," thinks Dakotah Hicks as she drives through "the hammered red landscape" of Wyoming, "boys smiling, sure in their risks, healthy, tipped out of the current of life by liquor and acceleration, rodeo smashups, bad ho...
Outger had not returned with them. Since then he and George and Sedley had suffered under the controlling leadership of Jan and Nicolaus, who allowed no innovation except closing down portions of the business. So the Carolina plantation was sold and Piet assigned the task of handling the New Engl...