{"product_id":"barkskins","title":"Barkskins","description":"\u003cp\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNOW A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProulx'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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Barkskins","offer_id":46319834169541,"sku":null,"price":27.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-0-00-723201-7.jpg?v=1780787312","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/barkskins","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}