The Resource Barkskins : a novel, Annie Proulx, (electronic resource)
Barkskins : a novel, Annie Proulx, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- From Annie Proulx-the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain-comes her masterpiece, ten years in the writing: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about taming the wilderness and destroying the forest, set over two centuries. In the late seventeenth century two illiterate woodsmen, Rene Sel and Charles Duquet, make their way from Northern France to New France to seek a living. Bound to a feudal lord, a "seigneur," for three years in exchange for land, they suffer extraordinary hardship, always in awe of the forest they are charged with clearing, sometimes brimming with dreams of its commercial potential. Rene marries an Indian healer, and they have children, mixing the blood of two cultures. Duquet travels the globe and back, starting a logging company that will prosper for generations. Proulx tells the stories of the children, grandchildren, and descendants of these 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 a fortune, or fleeing stunningly brutal conditions-accidents, pestilence, Indian attacks, the revenge of rivals. Beyond her vast research and astonishing imagination, Proulx's inimitable genius is her creation of characters who are so vivid-in their greed, lust, vengefulness, sorrow, compassion and hope-that we follow them with fierce attention, and when they die, there are others equally visceral and magnetic. Annie Proulx is one of the most formidable writers of our time, and Barkskins is her Moby Dick, the story she has been writing all her life, a magnificent American novel
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (25 hr., 55 min.)
- Note
- Downloadable audio file
- Isbn
- 9781442381049
- Link
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- Label
- Barkskins : a novel
- Title
- Barkskins
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Annie Proulx
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- From Annie Proulx-the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain-comes her masterpiece, ten years in the writing: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about taming the wilderness and destroying the forest, set over two centuries. In the late seventeenth century two illiterate woodsmen, Rene Sel and Charles Duquet, make their way from Northern France to New France to seek a living. Bound to a feudal lord, a "seigneur," for three years in exchange for land, they suffer extraordinary hardship, always in awe of the forest they are charged with clearing, sometimes brimming with dreams of its commercial potential. Rene marries an Indian healer, and they have children, mixing the blood of two cultures. Duquet travels the globe and back, starting a logging company that will prosper for generations. Proulx tells the stories of the children, grandchildren, and descendants of these 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 a fortune, or fleeing stunningly brutal conditions-accidents, pestilence, Indian attacks, the revenge of rivals. Beyond her vast research and astonishing imagination, Proulx's inimitable genius is her creation of characters who are so vivid-in their greed, lust, vengefulness, sorrow, compassion and hope-that we follow them with fierce attention, and when they die, there are others equally visceral and magnetic. Annie Proulx is one of the most formidable writers of our time, and Barkskins is her Moby Dick, the story she has been writing all her life, a magnificent American novel
- Accompanying matter
- technical information on music
- Cataloging source
- RECBC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Proulx, Annie
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- not applicable
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- not applicable
- Literary text for sound recordings
- fiction
- Music parts
- not applicable
- PerformerNote
- Narrated by Robert Petkoff
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Petkoff, Robert
- Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm)
- OverDrive, Inc
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Families
- Fiction
- Indentured servants
- Canada
- Transposition and arrangement
- not applicable
- Label
- Barkskins : a novel, Annie Proulx, (electronic resource)
- Link
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- Note
- Downloadable audio file
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Color
- not applicable
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Dimensions
-
- not applicable
- unknown
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (25 hr., 55 min.)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781442381049
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- not applicable
- Kind of material
- unknown
- Level of compression
- unknown
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 080a4000-ade1-4672-95b5-2784ecc80d14
- Publisher number
- Z100014861
- Quality assurance targets
- unknown
- Reformatting quality
- access
- Sound
- sound
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
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- other
- remote
- Speed
- other
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)951977065
- (OCoLC)ocn951977065
- 1262180
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
- Label
- Barkskins : a novel, Annie Proulx, (electronic resource)
- Link
-
- http://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L2BjQAAAHUFAAA1a/products/080a4000-ade1-4672-95b5-2784ecc80d14
- https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L2BjQAAABMkAAA1T/products/080a4000-ade1-4672-95b5-2784ecc80d14
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- http://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L2BjQAAABIFAAA1F/products/080a4000-ade1-4672-95b5-2784ecc80d14
- Note
- Downloadable audio file
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Color
- not applicable
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Dimensions
-
- not applicable
- unknown
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (25 hr., 55 min.)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781442381049
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- not applicable
- Kind of material
- unknown
- Level of compression
- unknown
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 080a4000-ade1-4672-95b5-2784ecc80d14
- Publisher number
- Z100014861
- Quality assurance targets
- unknown
- Reformatting quality
- access
- Sound
- sound
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- Speed
- other
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)951977065
- (OCoLC)ocn951977065
- 1262180
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
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