{"product_id":"barksins","title":"Barksins","description":"\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eFrom Annie Proulx — the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-­winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Shipping News\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBrokeback Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e, comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about the taking down of the world’s forests.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProulx 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProulx’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\/span\u003e","brand":"Readers Paradise Book Shop Wexford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46791130841435,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0538\/7105\/0923\/files\/1_4a93beac-d4ca-4711-a0da-8da87dbff396.jpg?v=1685626362","url":"https:\/\/readersparadise.pro\/products\/barksins","provider":"ReadersParadise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}