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USA: 'Brokeback Mountain' author Annie Proulx plans to build the home of her dreams in remote 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.
Having lived a peripatetic life, Annie Proulx decides to build a house where she can end her days. It does not quite work out that way when she falls in love with a 640 acre of remote Nature Conservancy land in Wyoming.
Read by Laura Brook
Abridged by Elizabeth Reeder
Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane.
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