{"product_id":"barkskinsbooks","title":"Barkskins","description":"\u003cb\u003eNow a television mini-series airing on National Geographic May 2020!\u003cbr\u003e A \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year \u0026amp; a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize–­­winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Shipping News\u003c\/i\u003e and “Brokeback Mountain,” comes the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling epic about the demise of the world’s forests: “\u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e is grand entertainment in the tradition of Dickens and Tolstoy…the crowning achievement of Annie Proulx’s distinguished career, but also perhaps the greatest environmental novel ever written” (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a “\u003ci\u003eseigneur\u003c\/i\u003e,” 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e is her greatest novel, a magnificent marriage of history and imagination.","brand":"Proulx, Annie","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":43146470097120,"sku":"","price":23.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/products\/BNCImageAPI_aa2535ce-4fe7-431f-b5e6-a866cc8fb6e9.jpg?v=1658336478","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/barkskinsbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}