TY  - BOOK
AU  - Proulx,Annie
TI  - Barkskins : a novel 
SN  - 9780007232017
AV  - PS3566.R697 B37 2016
U1  - 813.54 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - 4th estate
KW  - FICTION / Historical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FICTION / Literary
KW  - FICTION / General
KW  - Epic fiction
KW  - gsafd
N2  - "Barkskins opens in New France in the late 18th century as Rene Sel, an illiterate woodsman makes his way from Northern France to the homeland to seek a living. Bound to a "seigneur" for three years in exchange for land, he suffers extraordinary hardship and violence, always in awe of the forest he is charged with clearing. In the course of this epic novel, Proulx tells the stories of Rene's children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, as well as the descendants of his friends and foes, as they travel back to Europe, to China, to New England, always in quest of a livelihood or fleeing stunningly brutal conditions--war, pestilence, Indian attacks, the revenge of rivals. 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. This is Proulx's most ambitious novel ever, and her master work"--
ER  -