Bird Cloud: A Memoir (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic) - Hardcover

Proulx, Annie

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9781410434937: Bird Cloud: A Memoir (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic)

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ISBN 10: 1410434931 ISBN 13: 9781410434937

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2011

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Named for a cloud that hung in the evening sky when Annie Proulx first visited, Bird Cloud is 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie with cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. She knew she had to purchase it, and what she would build there -a house in harmony with her work, her appetites and her character. This is that story, along with an enthralling natural history and archaeology of the region, a family history, and an illuminating autobiography.

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Praise for Annie Proulx

‘Proulx's enchanting description, unparalleled sentence structure, and unwavering insight combine to reveal both the coldest and most resilient recesses of the human heart’ O, the Oprah Magazine

‘Ms. Proulx writes with all the brutal beauty of one of her Wyoming snowstorms’ Wall Street Journal

‘No one writes better about tough people in tough places’ USA Today

‘Annie Proulx is a genuine character-a true original. She has a shrewd understanding of people, a strong feeling for landscape...and a wry sense of humor rather like Mark Twain's’ Los Angeles Times

‘No ones writes about the West with the skeptical verve of Annie Proulx’ Outside

About the Author:

Annie Proulx's books include the novel ‘The Shipping News’ and the story collection ‘Fine Just the Way It Is’. Her many honors include a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize and a PEN/Faulkner award. She lives in Wyoming.

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