Barkskins: A Novel
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and “Brokeback Mountain,” comes the New York Times bestselling epic about the demise of the world’s forests. In the late seventeenth century two young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters—barkskins. Annie Proulx tells the stories of the descendants of Sel and Duquet over three hundred years—their travels across North America, to Europe, China, and New Zealand—the revenge of rivals, accidents, pestilence, Indian attacks, and cultural annihilation. Over and over, they seize what they can of a presumed infinite resource, leaving the modern-day characters face to face with possible ecological collapse.
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So I am 400 pages in to this novel and am ready to leave on vacation. This book weighs a thousand pounds and is not making it into my luggage- for more than one reason.... It is written beautifully, but I am just not loving it enough to haul it around. So far is a lot of pages in to want to leave it behind... What the heck??? Too many characters, too little plot, and I have run out of time to see if this "masterpiece" is ever going to turn around for me. Yes- it is being hailed a masterpiece.
So what to do.... Appeal to my dad to read this big old book and let us all know what he thinks. No one loves history more (and this is an impeccably detailed historical account of the logging industry in Canada) so he is my perfect reviewer. Thanks Dad!
I will add his review below when he sends it to me. I am anxiously awaiting his opinion...
To be continued.....
So.... My dad read 200 pages and refused to go on. It is safe to say we are missing what makes this book a "masterpiece". I do not think I will be finishing this one!
So I am 400 pages in to this novel and am ready to leave on vacation. This book weighs a thousand pounds and is not making it into my luggage- for more than one reason.... It is written beautifully, but I am just not loving it enough to haul it around. So far is a lot of pages in to want to leave it behind... What the heck??? Too many characters, too little plot, and I have run out of time to see if this "masterpiece" is ever going to turn around for me. Yes- it is being hailed a masterpiece.
So what to do.... Appeal to my dad to read this big old book and let us all know what he thinks. No one loves history more (and this is an impeccably detailed historical account of the logging industry in Canada) so he is my perfect reviewer. Thanks Dad!
I will add his review below when he sends it to me. I am anxiously awaiting his opinion...
To be continued.....
So.... My dad read 200 pages and refused to go on. It is safe to say we are missing what makes this book a "masterpiece". I do not think I will be finishing this one!
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