Annie Proulx ~ Barkskins: First Edition

Weight ~ 1.1063 Kg (PROULX) Annie Proulx ~ Barkskins: First Edition Author ~ Annie Proulx Title ~ Barkskins Edition ~ First Edition ISBN ~ 9780007232000 Publisher ~ 4th Estate Published ~ 2016 Language ~ English Pages ~ 717 Format ~ Hardcover Condition ~ Near New Excellent near new condition. First printing with complete number line, British edition. Dust jacket in a protective wrap Categories ~#Culture#Family#Hardship#Contemporary#Fiction#FirstEdition#AnnieProulx#9780007232000 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.