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Annie proulx brokeback6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s full of techies it’s just bursting with tech people. I get tired of seeing people high-fiving each other. “It’s one eternal traffic jam and everything seems mismanaged. “It’s just a place that is more irritating to me than anything else,” she says with a tiny shudder. While she doesn’t relish the upheaval, she’s not wedded to Washington – especially not Seattle, the thriving tech city where she briefly lived. It’s cosy and serene.īut she plans to move to New England, where she and her four younger sisters lived as children, and one sister lives still. Picture windows frame views of the distant Cascade Mountains. We sit in front of a stone fireplace flanked by well-stocked bookshelves and a coffee table where A History of Men’s Fashion tops another pile of books. The four-bedroom wooden house (yes, red cedar, she thinks) has been renovated inside using natural tones and materials – creamy walls, slate and wood for the floors. Shrubs and saplings have been planted in the gardens, encouraging unwelcome visits from nibbling deer and even a bear. The Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain has created an oasis here, amid her five acres of woodland. ![]()
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