Barkskins: A Novel

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Barkskins: A Novel
- SCRIBNER
Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Best Novel
A New York Times Notable Book
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year

From the Pulitzer Prize-ÂÂwinning author of The Shipping News and â€œBrokeback Mountain,â€ comes the New York Times bestselling epic about the demise of the worldâ€™s forests: â€œBarkskins is grand entertainment in the tradition of Dickens and Tolstoyâ€¦the crowning achievement of Annie Proulxâ€™s distinguished career, but also perhaps the greatest environmental novel ever writtenâ€ (San Francisco Chronicle).

In the late seventeenth century two young Frenchmen, RenÃ© Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cuttersâ€”barkskins. RenÃ© suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a native woman and their descendants live trapped between two cultures. But Duquet runs away, becomes a fur trader, then sets up a timber business. Annie Proulx tells the stories of the descendants of Sel and Duquet over three hundred yearsâ€”their travels across North America, to Europe, China, and New Zealandâ€”the revenge of rivals, accidents, pestilence, Indian attacks, and cultural annihilation. Over and over, they seize what they can of a presumed infinite resource, leaving the modern-day characters face to face with possible ecological collapse.

â€œA stunning, bracing, full-tilt ride through three hundred years of US and Canadian historyâ€¦with the type of full-immersion plot that keeps you curled in your chair, reluctant to stop readingâ€ (Elle), Barkskins showcases Proulxâ€™s inimitable genius of creating characters who are so vivid that we follow them with fierce attention. â€œThis is Proulx at the height of her powers as an irreplaceable American voiceâ€ (Entertainment Weekly, Grade A), and Barkskins â€œis an awesome monument of a bookâ€ (The Washington Post)â€”â€œthe masterpiece she was meant to writeâ€ (The Boston Globe). As Anthony Doerr says, â€œThis magnificent novel possesses the dark humor of The Shipping News and the social awareness of â€˜Brokeback Mountain.â€™â€
Country USA
Brand Scribner
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780743288798
ReleaseDate 2017-04-11
UnitCount 1
Format Big Book
EANs 9780743288798

Country	USA
Brand	Scribner
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780743288798
ReleaseDate	2017-04-11
UnitCount	1
Format	Big Book
EANs	9780743288798

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