Example sentences for: proulx

How can you use “proulx” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The winter fiction issue includes short stories by Richard Ford, Ken Kesey, and Annie Proulx.

  • New York recently featured this literary murder mystery as a case study in "breakthrough" marketing--its publisher, Viking, hoped to position it as a middlebrow hit, like Annie Proulx's The Shipping News . Reviewers aren't cooperating.

  • -- Mark Proulx Des Moines, Wash.

  • The critics can't say enough about her tight, honed prose: She gets the speech patterns just right ("a stunningly authentic voice," declares Michael Knight in the Wall Street Journal ), she writes "sentences whose specific gravity mysteriously exceeds their size" (Walter Kirn, New York ), and her characters have an "absolute authenticity" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, the New York Times ). (Listen to this CBC interview with Proulx.)

  • Short story contributors include Stephen King, Alice Munro, and E. Annie Proulx.


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