Barkskins
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Barkskins
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The work Barkskins represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- Barkskins
- Statement of responsibility
- Annie Proulx
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Illustrations
- genealogical tables
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3566.R697
- LC item number
- B37 2016b
- Literary form
- fiction
- Series statement
- Thorndike Press large print core
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