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Barkskins: Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017 by Annie Proulx (Hardcover, 2016)
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LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR From Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain, comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about the taking down of the world's forests. In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, Rene Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a seigneur, for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters - barkskins. Rene suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a Mi'kmaw woman and their descendants live trapped between two inimical cultures. But 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 years - their travels across North America, to Europe, China, and New Zealand, under stunningly brutal conditions; the revenge of rivals; accidents; pestilence; Indian attacks; and cultural annihilation. Over and over again, they seize what they can of a presumed infinite resource, leaving the modern-day characters face to face with possible ecological collapse. Proulx's inimitable genius is her creation of characters who are so vivid - in their greed, lust, vengefulness, or their simple compassion and hope - that 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 magnificent marriage of history and imagination.Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-139780007232000
eBay Product ID (ePID)212572424
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Book TitleBarkskins: Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017
AuthorAnnie Proulx
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year2016
Number of Pages736 Pages
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Item Height240mm
Item Width159mm
Item Weight1080g
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Title_AuthorAnnie Proulx
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 07 Sep, 2016
Revealing
Although only half way through, I have to say this is a tremendous book. It gives clear picture of the struggles both of the early settlers and the unfortunate natives they dismissed as worthless. Other books may have given horrific details of actual cruelty to them but this tells of the destruction of their living in partnership with their surroundings.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 24 Dec, 2019
required reading
Annie Proux as always tells compelling storiesVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
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