Barkskins : Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017 eAudiobook MP3
by Annie Proulx
Narrated by Robert Petkoff
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LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIESFrom 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.
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- Publication Date:16/06/2016
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eAudioBook DownloadImmediate Digital Delivery
- Format:eAudiobook MP3
- Run-time:25 hours 54 mins
- File size:0MB
- Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication Date:16/06/2016
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- ISBN:9780007568055