- Families, Fiction, Lumber trade, Micmac Indians
"Bark Skins open in New France in the late 18th century as Rene Sel, an illiterate woodsman makes his way from Northern France to the homeland to seek a living. Bound to a "seigneur" for three years in exchange for land, he suffers extraordinary hardship and violence, always in awe of the forest he is charged with clearing.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Annie Proulx
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 736
- Publisher
- Maxi-Tusquets, Tusquets, Círculo de Lectores
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9788467269062
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Edna Ann Proulx is an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. She has written most frequently as Annie Proulx but has also used the names E. Annie Proulx and E.A. Proulx. She won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her first novel, Postcards, making her the first woman to receive the prize. Her second novel, The Shipping News (1993), won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and was adapted as a 2001 film of the same name. Her short story "Brokeback Mountain" was adapted as an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award-winning motion picture released in 2005.
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