Книга: Proulx A. «Barkskins»
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From Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize-¬winning author of The Shipping News and “Brokeback Mountain,” comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about the taking down of the world’s forests.. In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, Rene Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in NewFrance. Bound to a feudal lord, a “seigneur,” for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters – barkskins. Rene suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a Mi’kmaw woman and their descendants live trapped between two inimical cultures. But Duquet, crafty and ruthless, runs away from the seigneur, becomes a fur trader, then sets up a timber business. 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, under stunningly brutal conditions; the revenge of rivals; accidents;... Формат: Мягкая бумажная, 717 стр.
ISBN: 9780007579327 |
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| Barkskins | LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017. From Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain, comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling… — (формат: Мягкая бумажная, 717 стр.) Подробнее... | бумажная книга |
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Proulx — may refer to:*Annie Proulx, an American journalist and author *Danielle Proulx, an actor *Mathieu Proulx *John Proulx, a jazz pianist, vocalist, and composer *Richard Proulx, composer and organist *Sébastien Proulx, Canadian politician … Wikipedia
Proulx — ist der Familienname von: Annie Proulx (* 1935), kanadisch US amerikanische Journalistin und Schriftstellerin Danielle Proulx (* 1952), kanadische Schauspielerin Émile Proulx Cloutier (* 1983), kanadischer Schauspieler Diese … Deutsch Wikipedia
Proulx — [ praulks], E. (Edna) Annie amerikanische Schriftstellerin, * Norwich (Connecticut) 22. 8. 1935; arbeitete u. a. als Journalistin; veröffentlichte 1988 eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten (»Heart songs and other stories«). Proulxs Werke handeln… … Universal-Lexikon
Proulx — Nom qui pourrait être originaire du Maine et Loire, où l on trouve plus fréquemment la forme Proult. Semble une variante de Preux (= vaillant), qui a été aussi utilisé comme nom de baptême … Noms de famille
Proulx — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Patronyme Proulx est un nom de famille notamment porté par : Annie Proulx (née en 1935), auteure américaine gagnant d un prix Pulitzer Catherine… … Wikipédia en Français
Proulx, E. Annie — ▪ 1995 E. Annie Proulx did not follow the customary advice to writers to write about what you know. She preferred to write about what interested her what she would like to know and she enjoyed going to new places and writing about what she… … Universalium
