{"product_id":"barkskins","title":"Barkskins","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow a mini-series on National Geographic!\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 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From 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.  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the late seventeenth century two young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord for three years in exchange for land, they become woodcutters--barkskins. René suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a native woman and their descendants live trapped between two cultures. But Duquet runs away, becomes a fur trader, then sets up a timber business. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnnie 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--the revenge of rivals, accidents, pestilence, Indian attacks, and cultural annihilation. Over and over, they seize what they can of a presumed infinite resource, leaving the modern-day characters face to face with possible ecological collapse and the consequences of environmental exploitation and colonialism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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\" (\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e showcases Proulx's inimitable genius of creating characters who are so vivid that we follow them with fierce attention. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is Proulx at the height of her powers as an irreplaceable American voice\" (\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, Grade A), and \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e \"is an awesome monument of a book\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e)--\"the masterpiece she was meant to write\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e). As Anthony Doerr says, \"This magnificent novel possesses the dark humor of \u003ci\u003eThe Shipping News\u003c\/i\u003e and the social awareness of 'Brokeback Mountain.'\"","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51943502807271,"sku":"9780743288798","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_f2013a21-46b9-428b-9519-860bc33dd414.jpg?v=1775324406","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/barkskins","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}