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Understanding Annie Proulx
Karen L. Rood
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Description for Understanding Annie Proulx
Hardcover. This work introduces readers to the author best known for "Postcards" and "The Shipping News". It examines her lyrical prose and wealth of detail, and analyzes her primary thematic concern - the way ordinary people conduct their lives in the face of massive social, economic, and ecological change. Series: Understanding Contemporary American Literature. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 178 x 127 x 25. Weight in Grams: 308.
UNDERSTANDING ANNIE PROULX introduces readers to the writings of a Pulitzer Prize-winning author best known for the novels Postcards, The Shipping News, and Accordion Crimes. In addition to examining the lyrical prose, wealth of detail, and distinctive characterization that have brought Proulx widespread praise, Karen L. Rood identifies and analyzes the novelist's primary thematic concern - the way ordinary people conduct their lives in the face of massive social, economic, and ecological change. Rood chronicles Proulx's childhood, development as a writer, and relatively late entry into fiction writing. (Proulx published her first story collection at the age of fifty-seven). Rood ... Read more
UNDERSTANDING ANNIE PROULX introduces readers to the writings of a Pulitzer Prize-winning author best known for the novels Postcards, The Shipping News, and Accordion Crimes. In addition to examining the lyrical prose, wealth of detail, and distinctive characterization that have brought Proulx widespread praise, Karen L. Rood identifies and analyzes the novelist's primary thematic concern - the way ordinary people conduct their lives in the face of massive social, economic, and ecological change. Rood chronicles Proulx's childhood, development as a writer, and relatively late entry into fiction writing. (Proulx published her first story collection at the age of fifty-seven). Rood ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Condition
New
Series
Understanding Contemporary American Literature
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
South Carolina, United States
ISBN
9781570034022
SKU
V9781570034022
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About Karen L. Rood
KAREN L. ROOD holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of South Carolina and has been a senior editor at Bruccoli Clark Layman for more than twenty years. Rood has written articles and edited books on aspects of American literature and culture from the colonial period to the present. She lives in Columbia.
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