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Annie Proulx - Bird Cloud
Released: 04/01/2011
Fourth Estate
In her first non-fiction book in over 20 years, Anne Proulx writes about her purchase of 640 acres of Wyoming Wetlands to build a house on, and the historical and geographical topography of the land revealed by the process. A compelling excavation of a rural idyll.
For more information visit:
http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/Titles/35675/bird-cloud-annie-proulx-9780007231980
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0743288807?ie=UTF8&tag=cultur00-21&linkCode=as2&ca…
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Scotsman“Proulx's tangled sentences made me put her book down...” An especially off-putting book about a wealthy and imperious writer who annoys the local residents. Flatlines in its final chapters into long descriptions of bird watching...
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Los Angeles Times“A patchwork quilt of a memoir...” Designing and building her dream home in Wyoming, leaving roughly seven decades unexplained and unaccounted for, but never mind — the book is the story of one woman's love/obsession with every little detail of her new home...
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The New York Times“My sympathies are with the devil...” Few writers can talk about the perks of their success without sounding either defensive or deplorable. Ms. Proulx is not among those few...
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