Edna Ann Proulx is an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. She has written most frequently as Annie Proulx but has also used the names E. Annie Proulx and E.A. Proulx.
After his wife's sudden death, the clumsy Quoyle, with his crenshaw-shaped head, moves to desolate Newfoundland with his daughters and eccentric aunt, where he unexpectedly reports the shipping news and uncovers his family's past among a community as strange as the land itself.
In 1960s Wyoming, two cowboys find a forbidden love as vast and dangerous as the mountains they herd sheep on, a bond that haunts their conventional lives and defies the violence of their world.
Two families' paths diverge from 17th-century New France, one building a timber empire, the other struggling to survive, as their intertwined stories reveal humanity's destructive relationship with the forest across three centuries and continents.
From the Louisiana bayou to the Alaskan wilderness, a single green accordion weeps and rejoices through a century of American immigrant struggles, linking the disparate lives and forgotten dreams of those who sought a new beginning.
In the desolate Texas Panhandle, a naive young man's quest to scout locations for an industrial hog farm forces him to confront the fiercely individualistic locals and question his own understanding of ambition and belonging.
