Barkskins
Proulx, Annie
Barkskins [sound recording] / Annie Proulx - New York : Audioworks , 2016 - 21 sound disc (26 hrs) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Unabridged. Compact disc
Read by Robert Petkoff.
Barkskins opens in New France in the late 18th century as Rene Sel, an illiterate woodsman makes his way from Northern France to the homeland to seek a living. Bound to a "seigneur" for three years in exchange for land, he suffers extraordinary hardship and violence, always in awe of the forest he is charged with clearing. In the course of this epic novel, Proulx tells the 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.
English.
9781442370067
Families----Fiction
New France---History----Fiction
Historical fiction
Audiobooks
PS3566.R697 / B37 2016
cCD FIC PRO
Barkskins [sound recording] / Annie Proulx - New York : Audioworks , 2016 - 21 sound disc (26 hrs) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Unabridged. Compact disc
Read by Robert Petkoff.
Barkskins opens in New France in the late 18th century as Rene Sel, an illiterate woodsman makes his way from Northern France to the homeland to seek a living. Bound to a "seigneur" for three years in exchange for land, he suffers extraordinary hardship and violence, always in awe of the forest he is charged with clearing. In the course of this epic novel, Proulx tells the 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.
English.
9781442370067
Families----Fiction
New France---History----Fiction
Historical fiction
Audiobooks
PS3566.R697 / B37 2016
cCD FIC PRO
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