02966cam a2200337 4500 263910266 TxAuBib 20160601120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781442381049 1442381043 080a4000-ade1-4672-95b5-2784ecc80d14 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2147665 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Proulx, Annie. Barkskins [READS Audiobook] : A Novel. Simon & Schuster Audio, 2016. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 712MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 712MB. HTML:From Annie Proulx—the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of <i>The Shipping News</i> and <i>Brokeback Mountain</i>—comes her masterpiece, ten years in the writing: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about taming the wilderness, set over two centuries.<br /> In the late eighteenth century Rene Sel, an illiterate woodsman, makes his way from Northern France to New France to seek a living. Bound to a feudal lord, a "<i>seigneur</i>," for three years in exchange for land, he suffers extraordinary hardship, always in awe of the forest he is charged with cleaning. Rene marries an Indian healer with children already, and they have more, mixing the blood of two cultures. Proulx tells the stories of the children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren of two lineages, the Sels and the Duquets, as well as the descendants of their allies and foes, as they travel back to Europe, to China, to New England, always in quest of a livelihood or fleeing stunningly brutal conditions—accidents, pestilence, Indian attacks, the revenge of rivals.<br /> <br /> 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 American writers of our time, and <i>Barkskins</i> is her <i>Moby Dick</i>. Historical Fiction. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2016-06-01 20:00:02. Petkoff, Robert. http://reads.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=080a4000-ade1-4672-95b5-2784ecc80d14 http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/5054-1/2147665-Barkskins.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=080a4000-ade1-4672-95b5-2784ecc80d14&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/5054-1/2147665-Barkskins.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=080a4000-ade1-4672-95b5-2784ecc80d14&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)