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Bird Cloud : A Memoir by Annie Proulx (2011, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherScribner
ISBN-100743288807
ISBN-139780743288804
eBay Product ID (ePID)84488426
Product Key Features
Book TitleBird Cloud : a Memoir
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2011
TopicEnvironmental Conservation & Protection, United States / West / Mountain (Az, Co, Id, Mt, NM, Nv, Ut, WY), General, Literary, Regional, Essays
IllustratorYes
GenreNature, Travel, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorAnnie Proulx
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight17.5 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"With a scientist's exactitude, an artist's attunement to beauty, and a storyteller's enchantment, Proulx takes us through the building of a home, intimacy with place, and reclamation of the past."--Donna Seaman, Booklist(starred review), " Bird Cloud shows the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author at her best... Bird Cloud is part personal memoir, part construction adventure, part diary of noble animals, but all of it comes together like the ingredients of a glorious meal. The reader is lucky to be invited to her table."- San Francisco Chronicle, "With every word on the page, Proulx pays homage to a rugged and magnificent Wyoming place-as well as to its surroundings, history, topography, geology and animals&. Proulx shares a part of her soul with the publication of Bird Cloud &. Beautiful and profound."-- Buffalo News, "Proulx [is] the laureate of the Wyoming outback and the Canadian shore& Her depictions of the Wyoming landscape in all its moods are in keeping with the best of the Western nature-writing tradition, full of celebration and evocation."- Kirkus (starred review), "With a scientist's exactitude, an artist's attunement to beauty, and a storyteller's enchantment, Proulx takes us through the building of a home, intimacy with place, and reclamation of the past."-- Donna Seaman , Booklist (starred review), “Proulx [is] the laureate of the Wyoming outback and the Canadian shore& Her depictions of the Wyoming landscape in all its moods are in keeping with the best of the Western nature-writing tradition, full of celebration and evocation.� Kirkus (starred review), “With a scientist’s exactitude, an artist’s attunement to beauty, and a storyteller’s enchantment, Proulx takes us through the building of a home, intimacy with place, and reclamation of the past.�--Donna Seaman , Booklist (starred review), "With every word on the page, Proulx pays homage to a rugged and magnificent Wyoming place-as well as to its surroundings, history, topography, geology and animals…. Proulx shares a part of her soul with the publication of Bird Cloud …. Beautiful and profound."-- Buffalo News, "Proulx's masterly prose coupled with her obsessive research on history, ecology, and genealogy sustains the reader. . .every nugget she offers up is pure gold."-- O , The Oprah Magazine, "Proulx [is] the laureate of the Wyoming outback and the Canadian shorehellip; Her depictions of the Wyoming landscape in all its moods are in keeping with the best of the Western nature-writing tradition, full of celebration and evocation."-Kirkus(starred review)
Dewey Decimal813.54
SynopsisIn her first work of nonfiction in more than 20 years--part family history, part naturalist's journal--Proulx delivers a vivid chronicle of building a house on a spectacularly beautiful piece of land in Wyoming., "Bird Cloud" 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 it-a house in harmony with her work, her appetites and her character, a library surrounded by bedrooms and a kitchen. Proulx's first work of nonfiction in more than twenty years, Bird Cloud 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. 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. Bird Cloud is magnificent.
LC Classification NumberPS3566.R697Z46 2011b
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