âMagnificent.â (Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See)
From Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of The Shipping News and âBrokeback Mountainâ comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling, violent, marvelously dramatic novel about the destruction of the worldâs forests.
In the late seventeenth century, two penniless young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in Canada, then known as New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a seigneur, for three years in exchange for land, they become woodcuttersâbarkskins. Sel suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a Miâkmaw woman, and their descendants live trapped between two hostile cultures. Duquet, crafty and ruthless, runs away from the seigneur, becomes a fur trader, then sets up a timber business.
Proulx tells the stories of the descendants of Sel and Duquet over three hundred yearsâtheir travels across North America, to Europe, China and New Zealand under stunningly brutal conditionsâthe revenge of rivals, accidents, pestilence and cultural annihilation. Again and again, they seize what they can of a presumed infinite resource, leaving the modern-day characters face-to-face with possible ecological collapse.
Proulxâs inimitable genius is her creation of characters who are so vividâin their greed, lust, vengefulness or their compassion and hopeâthat we follow them with fierce attention. Annie Proulx is one of the most formidable and compelling American writers, and Barkskins is her greatest novel, a superb marriage of history and imagination.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Historical Fiction
- General
- Historical Fiction
Publisher : Scribner
Author : Proulx, Annie
Language : English
Edition : Canadian Export
Published :2016-11-01
Number Of Pages : 736
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 1501164481
ISBN-13 : 9781501164484
Item weight : 1.76 lb
Dimensions : 1.89 in x 6.3 in x 9.21 in
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