Heartsongs

'Proulx doesn't merely tell her stories or participate in them, but convinces you with every word.'Los Angeles TimesBeyond the drugstore and the diner of a rural town is another world - a wilderness - waiting to be explored. Deer can be stalked, pools of trout fished, grouse shot, and traplines laid for fur. Whether they are yuppies from town who think country life is improving, or natives who know too well that it isn't, the women and men who inhabit these stories are hunting for something better. Thought getting by at all is hard enough...Thse people live, love and lose. They fall apart and pick up the pieces. They dream useless dreams - but go on dreaming whatever the disappointments. E.Annie Proulx is the universally acclaimed author of Postcards and The Shipping News. In these tough, tender, irresistibly humourous stories she shows herself to be equaly at home in the harsh, beautiful outdoors as in the infinitely subtle territory of the heart.'I read this collection straight through, at one sitting, in one great gulp...Bedazzled, I went back and read a few stories again, just to make sure they were really that good. They're better.'Chicago Tribune