Annie Proulx – Barkskins (retail) (epub)
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Name: Annie Proulx – Barkskins (retail) (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 4.23 MB
Book:
Title: Barkskins
Author: Annie Proulx
Language: polski
Year: 2020
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 9788323547907
Total pages: 216 str.
Description:
From Annie Proulx-the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain-comes an ecological masterwork, five years in the writing: 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, 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…
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