{"product_id":"9780007232017-barkskins","title":"Barkskins","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLonglisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2017\u003cbr\u003eLONGLISTED 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e            \u003cstrong\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017\u003c\/strong\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003e            \u003cstrong\u003eNOW A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES\u003c\/strong\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eFrom Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003cem\u003eThe Shipping News\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBrokeback Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e, comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about the taking down of the world’s forests.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eIn 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, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eProulx’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 \u003cem\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/em\u003e is her greatest novel, a magnificent marriage of history and imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57536494174582,"sku":"9780007232017","price":16.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29788213.jpg?v=1774289090","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780007232017-barkskins","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}