Part family history, part naturalist's journal, and her first work of nonfiction in twenty years, "Bird Cloud" is Proulx's vivid chronicle of building a house on a spectacularly beautiful piece of land in Wyoming.
Record details
ISBN:9780743288804 (hc.)
Physical Description:print xiii, 234 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Edition:1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Publisher:New York ; Toronto : Scribner, c2011.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
The back road to Bird Cloud -- A yard of cloth -- Lodgepole Pines and houses -- The iron enters my sole -- 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.
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