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Bird cloud

Highlighting the serene Wyoming landscape and its rich heritage, Annie Proulx, author of "The shipping news," chronicles living in the Cowboy State. 'Bird Cloud' is the name Proulx gave to the 640-acre land she fell in love with on her first visit. This work of nonfiction follows...

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Main Author: Proulx, Annie.
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, [2011]
Subjects:
Proulx, Annie > Homes and haunts > Wyoming.
Women authors, American > Biography.
Natural history > Wyoming.
Wyoming > Biography.
Wyoming > Description and travel.
Memoirs.
Audiobooks.
Summary: Highlighting the serene Wyoming landscape and its rich heritage, Annie Proulx, author of "The shipping news," chronicles living in the Cowboy State. 'Bird Cloud' is the name Proulx gave to the 640-acre land she fell in love with on her first visit. This work of nonfiction follows Proulx as she builds a house (essentially a library surrounded by bedrooms and a kitchen) from the ground up.
Item Description: Title from web page.
Unabridged.
Compact disc.
Duration: 7:00:00.
Physical Description: 7 sound discs (7 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN: 9780743597241
0743597249
Author Notes: Edna Annie Proulx was born in Norwich, Connecticut on August 22, 1935. She graduated from the University of Vermont in 1969 and earned an M. A. from Sir George Williams University in Montreal in 1973. She was a journalist, wrote nonfiction articles for numerous publications, and was the author of several "how-to" books before beginning to write fiction in her 50s.

She became the first woman to win the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, for her debut novel Postcards. Her novel The Shipping News won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award in 1994. Accordion Crimes, published in 1996, won the Dos Passos Prize for literature. She also won the O. Henry prize for the year's best short story twice; in 1998 for Brokeback Mountain and in 1999 for The Mud Below. She has written more than 50 articles and stories for periodicals and edited Best American Short Stories of 1997.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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