Heart Songs
Backcountry New England towns where the hill farms have failed and the outsiders who bought them cheap keep colliding with the families who never left: a man who walks out of a suburban marriage to hunt and is no good at it, a would-be musician who talks his way into a local family band and into the daughter. Proulx writes the poverty in exact tools, weather and second-hand machinery, and gives the natives dialogue nobody has tidied up. Her first book, published at fifty-three, and the start of a career in which landscape does the work of plot.
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