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From 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.
Proulx'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.
This historical saga, penned by the literary genius Annie Proulx, takes us on a journey through rural and small towns, immersing us in the native and aboriginal cultures. It's no wonder that Barkskins has been recognised as one of the best and top works in its genre.
For fans of Barbara Kingsolver (Demon Copperhead), Cormac Mccarthy (Stella Maris), Maggie O'Farrell (Hamnet), Kate Atkinson (Shrines of Gaiety), and Hernan Diaz (Trust).