E. Annie Proulx (born 1935) won the 1993 PEN/Faulkner Award for her novel Postcards and a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for her next novel, The Shipping News.While she was certainly not an overnight sensatio...
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In the following excerpt, Rackstraw offers a positive assessment of Heart Songs and Other Stories.
According to master fictionist R. V. Cassill, the short story is “a refuge for those who wa...
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In the following review, Akins offers a generally positive assessment of Heart Songs and Other Stories, noting that Proulx's prose is “often inspired.”
If you want to meet some...
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In the following essay, Steinberg provides an overview of Proulx's life, career, and body of work upon the publication of Accordion Crimes.
Mention E. Annie Proulx's name and readers ...
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In the following review, Mukherjee praises Accordion Crimes, calling the work Proulx's “most audacious to date.”
I fell under E. Annie Proulx's storytelling spell some s...
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In the following review, Akins commends Proulx's “overwhelming verisimilitude” in Accordion Crimes.
E. Annie Proulx does not repeat herself, which could be a curse, since every...
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In the following review, McGee praises Accordion Crimes, calling the work a “mighty, searing reflection on U.S. ethnic history.”
Ours is a billboard culture. Giant signs may no longer...
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In the following positive review, Adams evaluates the strengths of Accordion Crimes.
“The accordion was so natural, a little friend. Easy and small to carry, easy to play, and loud, and can ...
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In the following review of Accordion Crimes, Grover praises Proulx's authorial voice and prose skill, but notes that her characters, as emblematic figures, are to some extent trivialized.
An...
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In the following review, Sutherland evaluates the strengths of Accordion Crimes, noting that the collection “uses all the range and the resources of Proulx's mature prose.”
The...
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In the following review, Moore offers a positive assessment of Accordion Crimes.
Many of those who admired E. Annie Proulx's magnificent second novel, The Shipping News, must have rushed off...
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In the following review, Carr commends the detail and humor in Proulx's stories in Accordion Crimes.
As a novelist, E. Annie Proulx has had a remarkable, if so far brief career. When in 1991...
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In the following excerpt, Shechner discusses recent trends in contemporary women's fiction and offers a mixed assessment of Accordion Crimes.
To please is her first care; and often she fears...
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In the following essay, Rood provides an overview of Proulx's life, career, body of work, critical reception, and the salient themes and narrative style of her fiction.
Annie Proulx achieved...
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In the following review of Heart Songs and Other Stories, Gardam compliments Proulx's literary skill, but finds her stories “unconsciously derivative” of earlier American writers....
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Death and Retreat from the Global by dominique hage
Annie Proulx's The Shipping News, and Seamus Heaney's collection of poems, both consider the theme of death. There are many ways in which death is ...
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The already-famous hot gay cowboy sex arrives fairly early in Brokeback Mountain. Without spoiling any of the cowpoking—and really, not since The Crying Game have genitals played such an impo...
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E. Annie Proulx
Critical Review by Loree Rackstraw
Death and Retreat from the Global
Chokeback Mountain
