Barkskins : a novel Annie Proulx.
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TextCopyright date: ♭2016Edition: First Scribner hardcover editionDescription: xii, 717 pages : genealogical tables ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780743288781Other title: Bark skinsSubject(s): Families -- Fiction | Canada -- Fiction | New France -- FictionGenre/Form: Epic fiction.DDC classification: 813/.54 LOC classification: PS3566.R697 | B37 2016Summary: In New France in the late 18th century, Rene Sel, an illiterate woodsman makes his way from Northern France to the homeland to seek a living. This novel tells stories of Rene's children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, as well as the descendants of his friends and foes, as they travel back to Europe, to China, to New England, always in quest of a livelihood or fleeing stunningly brutal conditions--war, pestilence, Indian attacks, the revenge of rivals.
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Includes family trees.
In New France in the late 18th century, Rene Sel, an illiterate woodsman makes his way from Northern France to the homeland to seek a living. This novel tells stories of Rene's children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, as well as the descendants of his friends and foes, as they travel back to Europe, to China, to New England, always in quest of a livelihood or fleeing stunningly brutal conditions--war, pestilence, Indian attacks, the revenge of rivals.
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