{"product_id":"barkskins-9780743288798","title":"Barkskins","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow a television mini-series airing on National Geographic May 2020!\u003cbr\u003e A \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year \u0026amp; a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize---winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Shipping News\u003c\/i\u003e and \"Brokeback Mountain,\" comes the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling epic about the demise of the world's forests: \"\u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e is grand entertainment in the tradition of Dickens and Tolstoy...the crowning achievement of Annie Proulx's distinguished career, but also perhaps the greatest environmental novel ever written\" (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the late seventeenth century two young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord 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 native woman and their descendants live trapped between two cultures. But Duquet runs away, becomes a fur trader, then sets up a timber business. Annie 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--the revenge of rivals, accidents, pestilence, Indian attacks, and cultural annihilation. Over and over, they seize what they can of a presumed infinite resource, leaving the modern-day characters face to face with possible ecological collapse. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A stunning, bracing, full-tilt ride through three hundred years of US and Canadian history...with the type of full-immersion plot that keeps you curled in your chair, reluctant to stop reading\" (\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e showcases Proulx's inimitable genius of creating characters who are so vivid that we follow them with fierce attention. \"This is Proulx at the height of her powers as an irreplaceable American voice\" (\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, Grade A), and \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e \"is an awesome monument of a book\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e)--\"the masterpiece she was meant to write\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e). As Anthony Doerr says, \"This magnificent novel possesses the dark humor of \u003ci\u003eThe Shipping News\u003c\/i\u003e and the social awareness of 'Brokeback Mountain.'\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-2748626\"\u003eAnnie Proulx\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/11\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 736\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780743288798\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0743288793\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC014000\"\u003eHistorical | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC077000\"\u003eNature \u0026amp; the Environment\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42708483473645,"sku":"9780743288798","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_52025164-fcd3-4ddb-b129-9bb00a3cb543.jpg?v=1650092312","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/barkskins-9780743288798","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}