Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place

ISBN-13: 9780007231997 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 288 str.

Annie Proulx

Opis

Annie Proulx, one of America's finest writers, invites us to share her experience in the building of her new home on a rich plot of untouched, unspoilt prairie and her pleasure in uncovering of the layers of American history locked beneath the topsoil.

Recenzje

'Proulx's prose is monumental' Observer

'Magic ... Books are like homes and within 10 pages of crossing the threshold of this one readers will put up their feet, secure in the knowledge that they won't be moving on to another any time soon ' Geoff Dyer, Observer

'A love letter to place...which interweaves details of the land's daily upkeep with her own equally evocative history' Vogue

A masterpiece' A. N. Wilson

O autorze

Annie Proulx is the author of nine books, including the novel The Shipping News, Barkskins and the story collection Close Range. Her many honors include a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and a PEN/Faulkner award. Her story 'Brokeback Mountain,' which originally appeared in The New Yorker, was made into an Academy Award-winning film. She lives in New Hampshire.