Bird Cloud : a memoir / Annie Proulx.
2011
PS3566.R697 Z46 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
Bird Cloud : a memoir / Annie Proulx.
Author
Proulx, Annie.
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
ISBN
9780743288804
0743288807
9780743288811
0743288815
0743288807
9780743288811
0743288815
Publication Details
New York : Scribner, 2011.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 234 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Call Number
PS3566.R697 Z46 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.54 B
Summary
"Bird Cloud" is the name the author 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. She 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 it, a house in harmony with her work, her appetites and her character, a library surrounded by bedrooms and a kitchen. Her first work of nonfiction in more than twenty years, this book is the story of designing and constructing that house, with 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 region, inhabited for millennia by Ute, Arapaho and Shoshone Indians, and a family history, going back to nineteenth century Mississippi riverboat captains and Canadian settlers. The author 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.
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Table of Contents
The back road to Bird Cloud
A yard of cloth
Lodgepole Pines and houses
The iron enters my soul
The James gang
When the wind blows
Details, details, details
Bird Cloud's checkered past
"...all beaded, all earringed, wing feather bowstring sided..."
A year of birds.
A yard of cloth
Lodgepole Pines and houses
The iron enters my soul
The James gang
When the wind blows
Details, details, details
Bird Cloud's checkered past
"...all beaded, all earringed, wing feather bowstring sided..."
A year of birds.