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'One of the greatest American writers' Independent 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. 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.
- Einband Taschenbuch
- Schriftsteller Proulx, Annie
- ISBN13 9780007579327
- ISBN10 0007579322
- Buchseiten 736
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2016
- Sprache Englisch
Barkskins
- Autor/in Annie Proulx
- Verlag HARPER COLLINS
- ISBN 9780007579327
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