Regina Willemse Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Dalla pluripremiata autrice Annie Proulx, una delle raccolte di racconti più celebrate del nostro tempo. Il linguaggio magistrale di Proulx e il suo profondo amore per il Wyoming emergono in queste storie di solitudine, violenza repentina e amori sbagliati. In "The Mud Below," l'ossessione di un rodeo rider segna le fratture sempre più profonde tra la sua vita familiare e l'isolamento autoimposto. In "The Half-Skinned Steer," un anziano sciocco si dirige verso il ranch della sua infanzia per il funerale del fratello, morendo a un miglio da casa. In "Brokeback Mountain," la difficile relazione tra due cowboy sopravvive a tutto tranne che all'intolleranza violenta del mondo. Queste sono storie di disperazione, tempi difficili e gioia inaspettata, ambientate in un paesaggio sia brutale che magnifico. Animate da racconti popolari, voli di fantasia e dettagli del lavoro rurale, giustappongono il carattere tradizionale del Wyoming e le sue attitudini—confronto con problemi difficili, pregiudizio, perseveranza di fronte alle difficoltà—con i valori più benigni del nuovo west.

""Troy meant one thing only to the men gathered here, as it did to their commanders. Troy was a dream of wealth; and if the wind continued the dream would crumble."" As the harsh wind holds the Greek fleet trapped in the straits at Aulis, frustration and political impotence turn into a desire for the blood of a young and innocent woman blood that will appease the gods and allow the troops to set sail. And when Iphigeneia, Agamemnon's beloved daughter, is brought to the coast under false pretences, and when a knife is fashioned out of the finest and most precious of materials, it looks as if the ships will soon be on their way. But can a father really go to these lengths to secure political victory, and can a daughter willingly give up her life for the worldly ambitions of her father? Throwing off the heroic values we expect of them, Barry Unsworth's mythic characters embrace the political ethos of the twenty-first century and speak in words we recognize as our own. The blowhard Odysseus warns the men to not "marginalize" Agamemnon and to "strike while the bronze is hot." High-sounding principles clash with private motives, and dark comedy ensues. Here is a novel that stands the world on its head."

Mabel Stark was one of the most famous women of her time, the centre-ring finale act of the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey circus in the 1920s and 1930s when circus was the most popular form of entertainment in North America.

Als de hoofdpersoon, een fervent jager, in het Chopping-district komt wonen, stuit hij bij zijn jacht naar korhoenders toevallig op een verlaten en halfverwoeste boerderij: Steenstad. Op datzelfde ogenblik staat hij oog in oog met Banger. Banger is een afstotelijke vijftiger, die alleen om zijn uitmuntende talent als jager en kenner van het jachtgebied door iedereen wordt gerespecteerd. Banger ontwijkt vragen over Steenstad. Toch krijgt de hoofdpersoon beetje bij beetje het gruwelijke verhaal over Steenstad en zijn bewoners te horen. Een verhaal dat sterk verbonden blijkt met Bangers leven.

Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters return to the family ancestral home in Newfoundland to start new lives.

Twaalf verhalen over de cultuur van de aborigines, de oorspronkelijke bewoners van Australië.