{"product_id":"barkskins","title":"Barkskins","description":"\u003cspan class=\"allbestus_mobile_hide\"\u003eHandling time: 14 days\u003c\/span\u003e 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.In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, Rene 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. Rene 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.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 Barkskins is her greatest novel, a magnificent marriage of history and imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"allbestus_search_terms_hide\"\u003e#ASTTD# Search Terms: Proulx Annie , Proulx Annie , 4th Estate , 4th Estate , 9780007232017 , 978-0-00-723201-7 , 1871788\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"4th Estate","offers":[{"title":"Новый","offer_id":53130802200843,"sku":"PRODUCT_1871788_ID","price":37.94,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/knigamir.ca\/fr\/products\/barkskins","provider":"Knigamir.ca","version":"1.0","type":"link"}