Annie Proulx
Barkskins
- ISBN 13:
- 9780007232017
- author:
- Annie Proulx
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Fourth Estate 01 edition (15 Jun. 2017)
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2017
- Pages:
- 736
- Dimensions:
- 19.8 x 12.9 x 4.6 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Fiction & Literature,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Barkskins: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author's epic novel about the world's forests
In 17th-century New France, two young men, René Sel and Charles Duquet, are bound to a feudal lord for three years in exchange for land. They become wood-cutters, known as "barkskins", tasked with clearing the forest. Their lives take them on a journey across North America, Europe, China, and New Zealand, shaped by brutal conditions, rivalry, accidents, and cultural clashes.
Over three hundred years, their descendants' stories unfold, revealing characters driven by greed, lust, vengefulness, or simple compassion and hope. Annie Proulx's masterful novel weaves together history and imagination to create a magnificent tale of human endeavour and ecological collapse.