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Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain, experiences the joys and challenges of building her perfect home on a remote prairie in Wyoming. Read by Laura Brook.

Pulitzer prize-winning writer, Annie Proulx, sets out to build her perfect home in a remote corner of Wyoming.

Proulx's first work of non-fiction in twenty years tells a personal story of designing and constructing a house in harmony with her interests, work and personality.

Living for her first year at Bird Cloud, Annie Proulx enjoys the range of bird and wildlife that inhabits her property. But it becomes clear that the remoteness and the snow will force her to reassess her dream.

Read by Laura Brook

Abridged by Elizabeth Reeder

Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane.

15 minutes

Last on

Sat 27 Feb 2016 02:45

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