Barkskins

by Annie Proulx

Book Overview

Now a television mini-series airing on National Geographic May 2020!
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year & a New York Times Notable Book

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: "Barkskins is grand entertainment in the tradition of Dickens and Tolstoy...the crowning...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743288785
• ISBN13: 9780743288781
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 736 Pages
• Weight: 2.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Textbook like but parts of it are very interesting.

The kind of book published for already acclaimed authors, it has many stretches that are a bit dry. I guess Ms Proulx felt she had something she needed to share? The middle part of the story where it stays about a single few persons for long stretches were the best in my opinion. Probably best read by those interested in genetics of Canadian natives and botany of trees. I found the ending unsatisfying, probably because I read novels for entertainment. You do get your moneys worth, it is a very long story.