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MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES 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. 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, 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. Proulx'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.
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