From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Shipping News and “Brokeback Mountain,” comes the New York Times bestselling epic about the demise of the world’s forests: “Barkskins 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” (San Francisco Chronicle)/5(K). Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of The Shipping News and several other novels, has also written a memoir, a handful of nonfiction books, and four story collections, including three volumes of Wyoming Stories. Her other awards include the Irish Times International Fiction Prize and a PEN/Faulkner award. Annie Proulx's historical novel, Barkskins, covers years from to While it focuses more on the social and ecological impact on the lives it follows, the story wouldn't exist without the context of the political situation that brought these Frenchmen onto North American soil.
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. Review Quotes "Barkskins is masterful, full of an urgent, tense lyricism, its plotting beautifully unexpected, its biographical narratives flowing into one another like the seasons. Annie Proulx is the author of nine books, including the novel The Shipping News, Barkskins, and the story collection Close Range. Her many honors include a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and a PEN/Faulkner award. Barkskins by Annie Proulx review - an environmental epic. This ambitious saga about the destruction of the world's forests follows two colonial dynasties across continents and centuries.
Annie Proulx's historical novel, Barkskins, covers years from to While it focuses more on the social and ecological impact on the lives it follows, the story wouldn't exist without the context of the political situation that brought these Frenchmen onto North American soil. Annie Proulx’s sprawling ecological saga is rich in incident but lacks the human touch. In Barkskins, the ‘environment is at least as important as anyone in it’. Photograph: Alamy. In. Barkskins (), Annie Proulx’s work of historical fiction, begins in seventeenth-century America. It tells the story of two young Frenchmen who become woodcutters in exchange for land from a feudal lord and the challenges their families face for generations to come. The book received mixed reviews upon publication, but the critical response was generally positive; the book was praised for its treatment of modern-day ecological threats, settler colonialism, and deforestation.
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