The brick pation you've always wanted can be yours now. So can the picket fence, the dry wall, the brick walkway, and the flagstone terrace. You won't have to wait another day for a workman to rescue that hundred-foot washboard you call a driveway! If you have even the slightest level of skill or experience, this book will provide the information and the confidence you need to tackle these basic construction projects and succeed!

In this study, independent scholar Rood introduces students and the interested reader to the writings of contemporary American writer Annie Proulx. Coverage includes a discussion of the major themes in Proulx's well-known novels such as Postcards, Accordion Crimes, and The Shipping News as well as three others. Rood also provides background information on Proulx's life and her development as a writer. c. Book News Inc.

This highly readable edited collection focuses on the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx. Each contributor to this volume explores a different facet of Proulx's striking attention to geography, place, landscape, regional environments, and local economies in her writing. Covering all of her novels and short story collections, scholars from the United States, Canada, and abroad engage in critical analyses of Proulx's new regionalism, use of geographical settings, and themes of displacement and immigration. Taken together, these essays demonstrate Annie Proulx's contribution to new regionalist understandings of place on local, national, and global scales. Readers will come away with a better understanding of Proulx's particular landscapes_particularly those of Wyoming, New England, Texas, and Newfoundland_and the issues surrounding the significance of these regions in contemporary American culture and literature.

This gound-breaking book presents 35 beautiful garden designs in clear, botanically accurate, full-color illustrations and bird's-eye-view line drawings accompanied by lists of their appropriate plant ingredients. 35 full-color illustrations, 35 line drawings.