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Barkskins : a novel / Annie Proulx.
Summary:
In the late seventeenth century, two illiterate woodsmen, Rene Sel and Charles Duquet, make their way from Northern France to New France to seek a living. Bound to a feudal lord, a 'seigneur', for three years in exchange for land, they suffer extraordinary hardship, always in awe of the forest they are charged with clearing, sometimes brimming with dreams of its commercial potential. Rene marries an Indian healer, and they have children, mixing the blood of two cultures. Duquet travels the globe and back, starting a logging company that will prosper for generations. Proulx tells the stories of the children, grandchildren, and descendants of these two lineages, the Sels and the Duquets, as well as the descendants of their allies and foes, as they travel back to Europe, to China, to New England, always in quest of a livelihood or a fortune, or fleeing stunningly brutal conditions - accidents, pestilence, Indian attacks, the revenge of rivals.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781442370074
- ISBN: 1442370076
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file (25 hr., 55 min., 42 sec.)) : digital
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : Simon & Schuster Audio, [2016]
Content descriptions
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Robert Petkoff. |
| Source of Description Note: | Hard copy version record. |
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| Subject: | Indentured servants > 17th century > Fiction. Canada > History > 17th century. Indentured servants. Canada. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Epic fiction. Audiobooks. Fiction. Historical fiction. History. Downloadable audio books. |
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Annie Proulx is the author of nine books, including the novel The Shipping News, Barkskins, and the story collection Close Range. Her many honors include a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and a PEN/Faulkner award. Her story âBrokeback Mountain,â which originally appeared in The New Yorker, was made into an Academy Awardâwinning film. Her most recent novel is Fen, Bog, and Swamp. She lives in New Hampshire.
