{"product_id":"9780007232017","title":"Barkskins : Longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2017","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Proulx, Annie \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 11\/04\/2017,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 736 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780007232017,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In 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\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 Barkskins is her greatest novel, a magnificent marriage of history and imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697304993836,"sku":"9780007232017","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780007232017_22fad3d9-a08d-4913-974f-c38802fcc405.jpg?v=1759665777","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780007232017","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}