β Annie Proulx
π Fiction
π
2021
π Scribner
π English
β 466 KB
π 1 views
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Barkskins
β Scribed by Annie Proulx
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Edition
- First Scribner trade paperback edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0743288793
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β¦ Synopsis
From Annie Proulxβthe Pulitzer PrizeΒ and National Book Award-Βwinning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountainβcomes an ecological masterwork, five years in the writing: 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, RenΓ© 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-cuttersβbarkskins. RenΓ© 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 yearsβtheir travels across...
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