{"product_id":"barkskins-9780743288798b","title":"Barkskins","description":"In the late seventeenth century two young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord 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 native woman and their descendants live trapped between two cultures. But Duquet runs away, becomes a fur trader, then sets up a timber business. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnnie 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 - the revenge of rivals, accidents, pestilence, Indian attacks, and cultural annihilation. Over and over, they seize what they can of a presumed infinite resource, leaving the modern-day characters face to face with possible ecological collapse.\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eAnnie Proulx \u003c\/span\u003eis the author of eight books, including the novel \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Shipping News\u003c\/span\u003e and the story collection \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eClose Range\u003c\/span\u003e. Her many honours include a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize and a PEN\/Faulkner award. Her story \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eBrokeback Mountain\u003c\/span\u003e, which originally appeared in the New Yorker, was made into an Academy Award-winning film.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42826152542288,"sku":"9780743288798B","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780743288798-l.jpg?v=1785904358","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/fr\/products\/barkskins-9780743288798b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}