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Episode 3

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.

Annie Proulx has still not found a builder for her Bird Cloud house until she is surprised to find one right under her nose. And work begins.

Read by Laura Brook

Abridged by Elizabeth Reeder

Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane.

15 minutes

Last on

Thu 25 Feb 201602:45

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