Barkskins

One of the greatest american writers independent from annie proulx the pulitzer prize-winning author of the 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 read more seventeenth century two penniless young frenchmen rene sel and charles duquet arrive in new france bound 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 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 europe china and new zealand under stunningly brutal conditions. The revenge of rivals. Accid...