Part autobiography, part natural history, Bird Cloud is the glorious story of Annie Proulx's piece of the Wyoming landscape and her home there. "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...
Part autobiography, part natural history, Bird Cloud is the glorious story of Annie Proulx's piece of the Wyoming landscape and her home there....
Folks in the Texas panhandle do not like hog farms. But Bob Dollar is determined to see his new job as hog site scout for Global Pork Rind through to the end. However he is forced to face the idiosyncratic inhabitants of Woolybucket and to question his own notions of loyalty and home.
Folks in the Texas panhandle do not like hog farms. But Bob Dollar is determined to see his new job as hog site scout for Global Pork Rind through to ...
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.
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, unspoil...
'Fine Just The Way It Is' returns to the familiar cast of the hardy, unsentimental prairie folk that made up the Wyoming stories of 'Bad Dirt' and 'Close Range'. These nine stories roam over centuries, capturing the voices and lives of the settlers of this sage-brushed and weatherworn country.
'Fine Just The Way It Is' returns to the familiar cast of the hardy, unsentimental prairie folk that made up the Wyoming stories of 'Bad Dirt' and 'Cl...
From the Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Shipping News, Accordion Crimes spans a century and a continent. The novel illuminates the lives of the founders of the U.S.A., descendants of Mexicans, Poles, Irish, etc., all linked by the accordian.
From the Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Shipping News, Accordion Crimes spans a century and a continent. The novel illuminates the lives of the ...
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR From Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain, comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about the taking down of the world's forests.
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR From Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Pr...
