CD Audiobook
Bird cloud [sound recording] / Annie Proulx.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780743597241 :
- Physical Description: 7 sound discs (ca. 7.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged ed.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, p2011.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Compact discs. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Joan Allen, featuring the author. |
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| Subject: | Proulx, Annie > Homes and haunts. Proulx, Annie. Audiobooks. Natural history > Wyoming. Women authors, American > Biography. Wyoming > Biography. Wyoming > Description and travel. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | CD 813.54 Proul | 31681002360683 | CDNONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
The author describes her purchase of six hundred wilderness acres in Wyoming and construction of a library-centric home where she contemplated her rich family history, including a river boat captain ancestor who met historical figures. - Baker & Taylor
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofBrokeback Mountain describes her purchase of 600 wilderness acres in Wyoming and construction of a library-centric home where she contemplated her rich family history, including a river boat captain ancestor who met historical figures. Simultaneous. - Simon and Schuster
Part autobiography, part natural history, Bird Cloud is the glorious story of Annie Proulxâs piece of the Wyoming landscape and her home there.
âBird Cloudâ is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four-hundred-foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. Proulx also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer and a dozen antelope. She fell in love with the land, then owned by the Nature Conservancy, and she knew what she wanted to build on itâa house in harmony with her work, her appetites and her character, a library surrounded by bedrooms and a kitchen.
Bird Cloud is the story of designing and constructing that houseâwith its solar panels, Japanese soak tub, concrete floor, and elk horn handles on kitchen cabinets. It is also an enthralling natural history and archaeology of the regionâinhabited for millennia by Ute, Arapaho, and Shoshone Indiansâand a family history, going back to nineteenth-century Mississippi riverboat captains and Canadian settlers.
Proulx, a writer with extraordinary powers of observation and compassion, here turns her lens on herself. We understand how she came to be living in a house surrounded by wilderness, with shelves for thousands of books and long worktables on which to heap manuscripts, research materials and maps, and how she came to be one of the great American writers of her time.
