The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[memento]

After BBM:

Annie Proulx wrote Ace in the Hole in 2002. From a review by Mary Whipple written in 2003: "Proulx is a real pro in controlling the pace of the novel. Whenever it starts to bog down or threaten to become dull, she gives us a new, outrageous name or an amusing digression (like the one about a lightbulb cemetery), or references to Bob's uncle's collection of "art plastic," or the visit of Bob's x-con friend who, with some friends, made a recording of flatulent "Rock Hits From Prison." All these save the novel from being prairie-flat, as Bob tries to save his job without hurting the people he meets. The book is entertaining, and its feel-good ending, which explains the title, will please many readers."

[Toast]

Round Four Oh Nine !!!!!!!!!
Annie's Fine

[southendmd]

After BBM:

Annie wrote That Old Ace in the Hole.

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Before Brokeback Mountain (June 23, 1994)

The unlikely hero of "The Shipping News" is a bumbling Brooklyn-born newspaperman named Quoyle, with "a great damp loaf of a body" and "a head shaped like a Crenshaw." After losing his job, his parents, his best friend and his faithless wife ("In another time, another sex, she would have been a Genghis Khan," is how Ms. Proulx described her in the book), he strikes out for Newfoundland with his two daughters and his aunt. He lands a job covering car wrecks and the shipping news for The Gammy Bird, a third-rate paper run by a fisherman-editor named Jack Buggit. He learns about boats, cod fishing, knots, seal flipper pie and love without pain. He finds his way.

At Home With: E. Annie Proulx; At Midlife, a Novelist Is Born

[Fran]

A Lonely Coast  and Brokeback Mountain are two of the stories included in Annie Proulx's Close Range:  Wyoming Stories.

[memento]

After BBM:

Annie Proulx wrote Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 in 2004.

[southendmd]

After BBM:

Annie Proulx won the Evil Companions Literary Award in 2001, for Close Range .

The Evil Companions, a Denver-based group of writers and artists who assess and celebrate one another's work, and choose an annual Winner, who is honored with a broadside of his or her work. Annie Proulx herself now lives in Wyoming but is closely associated with the evil-doers.

 
 
 
 
 

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Before Brokeback Mountain:

Annie Proulx wrote Plan and Make Your Own Fences and Gates, Walkways, Walls and Drives, in 1983.

[memento]

Before BBM:

Starting as a journalist, Annie did not begin writing fiction until she was in her late forties, publishing her first stories in Gray's Sporting Journal in the late 1970s, eventually publishing her first collection in 1988 and her first novel in 1992.

[southendmd]

After BBM:

The Shipping News was adapted to film by director Lasse Hallström in 2001, starring Kevin Spacey as protagonist, Quoyle.