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“A stunning, bracing, full-tilt ride through three hundred years of US and Canadian history... with the type of full-immersion plot that keeps you curled in your chair, reluctant to stop reading” (Elle), Barkskins showcases Annie Proulx’s inimitable genius of creating characters who are so vivid that we follow them with fierce attention. "Monumental. [With] prose of directness, clarity, rhythmic power and oaken solidity. . . Barkskins is a potently imagined chronicle of mankind’s dealings with the North American forests." - The Wall Street JournalIn the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, René 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. René 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, and then sets up a timber business. "Proulx establishes in Barkskins a narrative so grand in spatial and temporal scope, so broad in theme,

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Author

Annie Proulx

Publisher

Fourth Estate GB

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780008191764

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, American Fiction