ISBN: 9780743288798
Editorial: Scribner
Autor: Proulx, Annie
Año de edición: 2017
Edición: 1
N° Páginas: 736
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: Críticas "Barkskins leaves no board unturned as it covers the industry that brought us plywood, cheap paper and prefab housing. [With] Proulx's stunning stylistic gifts . . . She is a writer's writer, and one whose deep interest in history provides the long view of how our environmental recklessness has brought us to a point of reckoning."-- "Ellen Emry Heltzel, Seattle Times""Barkskins is masterful, full of an urgent, tense lyricism, its plotting beautifully unexpected, its biographical narratives flowing into one another like the seasons. Ambitious. . . A marvel. . .[Barkskins] is a long novel worth your time."-- "Charles Finch, USA Today""'Barkskins' is Annie Proulx's greatest novel yet. [Her] talent for bringing individuals alive with a single perfectly-turned line has never been sharper than in these pages. ... It's a completely masterful performance, the greatest thing this great novelist has ever written."-- "Christian Science Monitor""Barkskins is an awesome monument of a book, a spectacular survey of America's forests dramatized by a cast of well-hewn characters.Such is the magnetism of Proulx's narrative that there's no resisting her thundering cascade of stories. A vast woods you'll want to get lost in. . . Barkskins is a towering new work of environmental fiction."-- "Ron Charles, The Washington Post""[It's] a tale too beautiful to miss, excellent for long afternoons spent swaying in a hammock."-- "Good Housekeeping""A masterpiece."-- "Buzzfeed""A masterpiece, Barkskins encompasses a breadth of themes and history rarely approached by any writer, girded by peerless research and Proulx's X-ray vision into the human heart. But the triumph of the novel lies in sentences that burst from the page, ideas that move and breathe with mission."-- "Hamilton Cain, O The Oprah Magazine""An epic capstone to 80-year-old Proulx's impressive career, Barkskins surpasses even the extraordinary The Shipping News as her finest novel."-- "Cliff Froehlich, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch""Annie Proulx - the magnificent American writer who brought us 'Brokeback Mountain' and 'The Shipping News' - scores once again with the captivating 'Barkskins.' . . . Her prose is often glorious, her several protagonists unforgettable. Proulx taps a vein here, helping to make 'Barkskins" one of the most exciting books I have read in years. Proulx has pulled out all the stops."-- "Karen Brady, Buffalo News""Annie Proulx returns with a great long read for the summer . . . Worth the wait, [Barkskins is] a stunning, bracing, full-tilt ride through 300 years of U.S. and Canadian history, told through two families whose fortunes are shaped, for better and worse, by the Europeans' discovery of North America's vast forests. With Barkskins, Annie Proulx blows out the horizons. The novel has a satisfying global sweep, with the type of full-immersion plot that keeps you curled in your chair, reluctant to stop reading. Barkskins is a tour de force."-- "Elle""Annie Proulx weaves [a] wealth of research, [and] brilliant imagination in [her] new novel Barkskins. Annie Proulx is a fearless writer. Like Melville's whaling and McMurtry's ranching, [Barkskins] provides a cast of colorful characters -- and a means of examining their relationships to the natural world and the continent's indigenous people. [With] delicious prose . . . Barkskins has a large cast, but that's a showcase for Proulx's gift for creating lively, complex characters. Proulx's style is inimitably her own, but it echoes here with those of great influences: Dickens, Melville, Twain, Faulkner and more."-- "Tampa Bay Times""Annie Proulx's Barkskins is remarkable not just for its length, but for its scope and ambition. It's a monumental achievement, one that will perhaps be remembered as her finest work. . . It's exhilarating to read Proulx, a master storyteller; she is as adept at placing us in the dripping, cold Mi'kma'ki forests as in the stuffy Duke & Sons parlors. Despite the length, nothing seems ext
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Proulx, Annie
- Editorial: Scribner
- N° Paginas: 736
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
