Annie Proulx, Heart Songs and Other Stories

Aliki Varvogli (University of Dundee)

Ed. by Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1988

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Story Collection

Resources

Annie Proulx's first collection of stories, Heart Songs, was published in 1988. Some of the eleven stories that make up this volume had been published in magazines before, while others were new, and even though each story is autonomous what they all have in common is their New England setting. Proulx's later book, The Shipping News, would have the harsh terrain of Newfoundland as its protagonist, and already in Heart Songs we see the author's emphasis on landscape and how it helps shape people's lives. Each story in this collection offers a glimpse into the everyday lives of people in the rural community of Chopping County. On the surface, nothing much happens as the locals go about hunting deer and grouse, or …

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Citation: Varvogli, Aliki. "Heart Songs and Other Stories". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 November 2002 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=4778, accessed 18 April 2024.]

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