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Courtney Sullivan, author of \u003ci\u003eSaints for All Occasions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mary Beth Keane takes on one of the most difficult problems in fiction—how to write about human decency. In \u003ci\u003eAsk Again, Ye\u003c\/i\u003es, Keane creates a layered emotional truth that makes a compelling case for compassion over blame, understanding over grudge, and the resilience of hearts that can accept the contradictions of love.”\u003cbr\u003e — \u003cb\u003eLouise Erdrich, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Round House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Ask Again, Yes\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful and moving novel of family, trauma, and the defining moments in people’s lives. Mary Beth Keane is a writer of extraordinary depth, feeling and wit. Readers will love this book, as I did.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Meg Wolitzer, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Female Persuasion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Remarkable.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mary Beth Keane looks past the veneer that covers ordinary moments and into the very heart of real life. There’s a Tolstoyan gravity, insight, and moral heft in these pages, and Keane’s ability to plumb the depths of authentic feeling while avoiding sentimentality leaves one shaking one’s head in frank admiration. This wonderful book is so many things: a gripping family drama; a sensitive meditation on mental illness; a referendum on the power and cost of loyalty; a ripping yarn that takes us down into the depths and back up; in short, a triumph.”                                        \u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eMatthew Thomas, author of \u003ci\u003eWe Are Not Ourselves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Keane's story embraces family lives in all their muted, ordinary, yet seismic shades… offers empathy and the long view… Tender and patient, the novel avoids excessive sweetness while planting itself deep in the soil of commitment and attachment. Graceful and mature. A solidly satisfying, immersive read.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Thoughtful, compassionate… illustrates the mutability of memory and the softening effects of time… poignantly demonstrates how grace can emerge from forgiveness.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mary Beth Keane is at the height of her powers in this novel about the sacrifices we make when we choose to build a life with someone. In \u003ci\u003eAsk Again Yes\u003c\/i\u003e, Keane tells a story about the fragility of happiness, the violence lurking beneath everyday life, and, ultimately, the power of love. If you’ve ever loved someone beyond reason, you will love this wise, tender, and beautiful book.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eEleanor Henderson, author of \u003ci\u003eTen Thousand Saints\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mary Beth Keane combines Joan Didion's exacting eye for detail with the emotional wallop of Alice McDermott. From the ache of first love to the recognition that the people closest to us are flawed and human, \u003ci\u003eAsk Again, Yes\u003c\/i\u003e is a moving testament to the necessary act of forgiveness. It is heartbreaking, hopeful, and honest.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Brendan Mathews, author of \u003ci\u003eThe World of Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Beautifully observed. . . . \u003ci\u003eAsk Again, Yes\u003c\/i\u003e is a tale that will compel readers to think deeply about the ravages of unacknowledged mental illness, questions of family love and loyalty, and the arduous journey towards forgiveness.” --\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBookPage, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003estarred review\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"Stunning! An absolutely brilliant, gorgeously-written novel by a fearless writer. \u003ci\u003eAsk Again, Yes \u003c\/i\u003eis both haunting and hopeful, like life itself. It's the consummate epic family story, one I can't stop thinking and talking about. 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What happens behind closed doors in both houses—the loneliness of Francis’s wife, Lena, and the instability of Brian’s wife, Anne, sets the stage for the explosive events to come.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn Mary Beth Keane's extraordinary novel, a lifelong friendship and love blossoms between Kate Gleeson and Peter Stanhope, born six months apart. One shocking night their loyalties are divided, and their bond will be tested again and again over the next thirty years. Heartbreaking and redemptive, \u003ci\u003eAsk Again, Yes \u003c\/i\u003eis a gorgeous and generous portrait of the daily intimacies of marriage and the power of forgiveness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e”This is one beautiful book. I was wowed by Keane’s writing and narrative skill—and by what she knows about trouble.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Stephen King\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the most unpretentiously profound books I've read in a long time… Keane writes with deep familiarity and precision about the lives of this particular generation… As a writer, Keane reminds me a lot of Ann Patchett: Both have the magical ability to seem to be telling ‘only’ a closely-observed domestic tale that transforms into something else deep and, yes, universal. In Keane's case, that ‘something else’ is a story about forgiveness and acceptance… modestly magnificent.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eMaureen Corrigan, \u003ci\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A beautiful novel, bursting at the seams with empathy.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eBrianna Kovan, \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Keane’s novel is a rare example of propulsive storytelling with profound insights about blame, forgiveness and abiding love.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeople Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“A profound story... Keane’s gracefully restrained prose gives her characters dignity... shows how difficult forgiveness can be—and how it amounts to a kind of hard-won grace.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eVogue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Keane writes with acute sensitivity and her characters are consistently, authentically lived-in. . . . smartly told.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A gem of a book.\" —\u003cb\u003eTaylor Jenkins Reid, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"I devoured this astonishing tale of two families linked by chance, love, and tragedy. Mary Beth Keane gives us characters so complex and alive that I find myself still thinking of them days after turning the final page. A must-read.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—J. Courtney Sullivan, author of \u003ci\u003eSaints for All Occasions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mary Beth Keane takes on one of the most difficult problems in fiction—how to write about human decency. In \u003ci\u003eAsk Again, Ye\u003c\/i\u003es, Keane creates a layered emotional truth that makes a compelling case for compassion over blame, understanding over grudge, and the resilience of hearts that can accept the contradictions of love.”\u003cbr\u003e — \u003cb\u003eLouise Erdrich, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Round House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Ask Again, Yes\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful and moving novel of family, trauma, and the defining moments in people’s lives. Mary Beth Keane is a writer of extraordinary depth, feeling and wit. Readers will love this book, as I did.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Meg Wolitzer, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Female Persuasion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Remarkable.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mary Beth Keane looks past the veneer that covers ordinary moments and into the very heart of real life. There’s a Tolstoyan gravity, insight, and moral heft in these pages, and Keane’s ability to plumb the depths of authentic feeling while avoiding sentimentality leaves one shaking one’s head in frank admiration. This wonderful book is so many things: a gripping family drama; a sensitive meditation on mental illness; a referendum on the power and cost of loyalty; a ripping yarn that takes us down into the depths and back up; in short, a triumph.”                                        \u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eMatthew Thomas, author of \u003ci\u003eWe Are Not Ourselves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Keane's story embraces family lives in all their muted, ordinary, yet seismic shades… offers empathy and the long view… Tender and patient, the novel avoids excessive sweetness while planting itself deep in the soil of commitment and attachment. Graceful and mature. A solidly satisfying, immersive read.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Thoughtful, compassionate… illustrates the mutability of memory and the softening effects of time… poignantly demonstrates how grace can emerge from forgiveness.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mary Beth Keane is at the height of her powers in this novel about the sacrifices we make when we choose to build a life with someone. In \u003ci\u003eAsk Again Yes\u003c\/i\u003e, Keane tells a story about the fragility of happiness, the violence lurking beneath everyday life, and, ultimately, the power of love. If you’ve ever loved someone beyond reason, you will love this wise, tender, and beautiful book.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eEleanor Henderson, author of \u003ci\u003eTen Thousand Saints\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mary Beth Keane combines Joan Didion's exacting eye for detail with the emotional wallop of Alice McDermott. From the ache of first love to the recognition that the people closest to us are flawed and human, \u003ci\u003eAsk Again, Yes\u003c\/i\u003e is a moving testament to the necessary act of forgiveness. 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Her third marriage was a tempestuous one to Frank Sinatra (“We were fighting all the time. Fighting and boozing. It was madness. . . . But he was good in the feathers”).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFaithfully recording Ava’s reminiscences in this book, Peter Evans describes their late-night conver­sations when Ava, having had something to drink and unable to sleep, was at her most candid. So candid, in fact, that when she read her own words, she backed out and halted the book. Only now, years after her death, could this frank and revealing memoir be published. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“If I get into this stuff, oh, honey, have you got something coming,” Ava told Evans. Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations is the stunning story of a legendary star’s public and private lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\"[Makes] you feel as if you're eavesdropping. . . . 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Bound to a feudal lord, a “\u003ci\u003eseigneur\u003c\/i\u003e,” for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters—barkskins. René 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, pestilence, Indian attacks, and cultural annihilation. Over and over again, they seize what they can of a presumed infinite resource, leaving the modern-day characters face to face with possible ecological collapse.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Proulx’s inimitable genius is her creation of characters who are so vivid—in their greed, lust, vengefulness, or their simple compassion and hope—that we follow them with fierce attention. Annie Proulx is one of the most formidable and compelling American writers, and \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e is her greatest novel, a magnificent marriage of history and imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Annie Proulx’s \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u0026amp; Sons parlors. Despite the length, nothing seems extraneous, and not once does the reader sense the story slipping from Proulx’s grasp, resulting in the kind of immersive reading experience that only comes along every few years.”\u003cbr\u003e“Part ecological fable à la Ursula K. Le Guin, part foundational saga along the lines of Brian Moore's Black Robe and, yes, James Michener's Centennial, Proulx's story builds in depth and complication without becoming unduly tangled and is always told with the most beautiful language. Another tremendous book from Proulx, sure to find and enthrall many readers.”\u003cbr\u003e“Proulx’s signature passion and concern for nature as well as her unnerving forensic fascination with all the harm that can befall the human body charge this rigorously researched, intrepidly imagined, complexly plotted, and vigorously written multigenerational epic. [With an] extensive and compelling cast, Proulx’s commanding epic about the annihilation of our forests is nothing less than a sylvan Moby-Dick replete with ardently exacting details about tree cutting from Canada and Maine to Michigan, California, and New Zealand, with dramatic cross-cultural relationships and with the peculiar madness catalyzed by nature’s glory. Here, too, are episodes of profound suffering and loss, ambition and conviction, courage and love. With a forthcoming National Geographic Channel series expanding its reach, Proulx’s commanding, perspective-altering epic will be momentous.”\u003cbr\u003e“[It’s] a tale too beautiful to miss, excellent for long afternoons spent swaying in a hammock.”\u003cbr\u003e“Magnificent... \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e flies... One of the chief pleasures of Proulx’s prose is that it conveys you to so many vanished wildwoods, where you get to stand ‘tiny and amazed in the kingdom of pines.’ This is also the great sadness of \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e. The propulsive tension here is generated not by wondering what will happen to each character, but by knowing that the forests will be leveled one after another... If \u003ci\u003eBarkskins \u003c\/i\u003edoesn’t bear exquisite witness to our species’s insatiable appetite for consumption, nothing can.”\u003cbr\u003e\"A masterpiece.\"\u003cbr\u003e“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.\"\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e 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. . . \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e is a towering new work of environmental fiction.”\u003cbr\u003e“Annie Proulx weaves [a] wealth of research, [and] brilliant imagination in [her] new novel \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e. Annie Proulx is a fearless writer. Like Melville's whaling and McMurtry's ranching, [\u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e] 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 . . .\u003ci\u003e Barkskins \u003c\/i\u003ehas 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.”\u003cbr\u003e“Annie Proulx returns with a great long read for the summer . . . Worth the wait, [\u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour de force.”\u003cbr\u003e“Fans of Annie Proulx have waited 14 years for a new novel from her. This summer, she has rewarded them. Her eye for detail offers readers glimpses into a world that is almost unimaginable. Proulx's novel will leave readers with new perspectives on a familiar history. It will also, perhaps, make some readers pause, this summer, during a summer stroll perhaps, and consider the manmade environment — the roads, the sidewalks, the homes, the cellphone towers, the flowerbeds — amid the tall, long-lived trees.”\u003cbr\u003e“Stunning, monumental... a moving opus of evolving Western environmental values in novel form.”\u003cbr\u003e“Monumental. [With] prose of directness, clarity, rhythmic power and oaken solidity. . . \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e is a potently imagined chronicle of mankind’s dealings with the North American forests.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Barkskins \u003c\/i\u003eis masterful, full of an urgent, tense lyricism, its plotting beautifully unexpected, its biographical narratives flowing into one another like the seasons. Ambitious. . . A marvel. . .[\u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e] is a long novel worth your time.”\u003cbr\u003e“Towering. . . With gorgeous imagery, clean prose and remarkable sensitivity, [\u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e is] as powerful and important as any literary work produced on this continent in the three centuries spanned by the story. “Barkskins” is “The Giving Tree” for grown-ups.”\u003cbr\u003e“Dazzling. . . Proulx’s characters are vivid, insistent, captivating. . . nary a page goes by without a few exquisitely observed historical details. The temptation to consider \u003ci\u003eBarkskins \u003c\/i\u003eunder the rubric of a Great American Novel is difficult to resist, given its scope. But Proulx’s ambitions seem to be keyed differently. Melville’s Moby-Dick, Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, Morrison’s Beloved—all of these books might be doomed in their respective attempts to somehow encompass the United States in its full complexity, but they at least focus on that burgeoning and manifold nation. Proulx, in contrast, establishes in \u003ci\u003eBarkskins \u003c\/i\u003ea narrative so grand in spatial and temporal scope, so broad in theme, that it cannot conceivably be strictly American. Her pitch-perfect sentences, instead, encompass the entire Western world, and its ever-growing concern with ecological and environmental change.”\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cb\u003eExtraordinary. . . \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e is the masterpiece Proulx was meant to write\u003c\/b\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e“Enthralling. . . Proulx’s human characters are vividly conceived. \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e brims with a granular sense of human experience over a period of 300 years. And like many novels by excellent writers, \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e encourages understanding, if not empathy, for characters whose outlooks we might usually dismiss. One of the great achievements of this novel is to create a tragic personality for the environment. Proulx’s beautiful prose renders and exultant view of the life of forest worlds lost to us.” \u003cbr\u003e“Like the best realists, Proulx can make us see the world and its inhabitants with greater clarity. Juggling so many different plotlines and characters becomes easier when you have, as Proulx does, a Dickensian gift for quick portraiture... Proulx reminds us that the world we live in was made possible by the destruction of the world that preceded it. The novel concludes with Saptisia Sel, the head of the Breitsprecher Tree Project, asking, ‘Can’t we try again? Can’t we fix what we broke?’ It’s an urgent question, perhaps \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c\/i\u003e urgent question, one that we should all be asking ourselves now.”\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003e‘Barkskins’\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”\u003cbr\u003e“Annie Proulx’s new work is a tribute to the world’s boreal forests, an intricately detailed narrative of geography, history and humanity that is both exhilarating and mesmerizing... [T]his is not a novel to peck at or flick through, but one to read slowly and to savour as a long and fulfilling feast.”\u003cbr\u003e“Few authors are as uniquely qualified as Annie Proulx (\u003ci\u003eThe Shipping News\u003c\/i\u003e) to sustain a novel as long as \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e. Pages melt away as readers zoom through the decades. Proulx’s story is bigger than any one man, one death, or even one culture: It’s about the effect civilization and society have had on the land. In her magical way, Proulx leaves the reader with an impression of not only a collection of people, but \u003ci\u003eour people\u003c\/i\u003e and the country that shaped us as we shaped it. This is Proulx at the height of her powers as an irreplaceable American voice.”\u003cbr\u003e“Annie Proulx’s 10th book is ambitious and essential. \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e is grand entertainment in the tradition of Dickens and Tolstoy. \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e is awesome and urgent. And if we’re lucky enough to survive the Anthropocene we’ve seemingly wrought, then \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e will surely survive as the crowning achievement of Proulx’s distinguished career, but also as perhaps the greatest environmental novel ever written.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Barkskins\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e“Proulx sketches each person with vigorous, unforgettable strokes . . . read it, absorb its urgent message.”\u003cbr\u003e“An epic capstone to 80-year-old Proulx’s impressive career, \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e surpasses even the extraordinary \u003ci\u003eThe Shipping News\u003c\/i\u003e as her finest novel.\"\u003cbr\u003e“Annie Proulx’s stunning new \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e is a bracing, full-tilt ride through 300 years of U.S. and Canadian history. With \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e, she 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. \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour de force [and] was worth the wait.”\u003cbr\u003e“Epic . . . 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Bound to a feudal lord for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters—barkskins. René suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a native woman and their descendants live trapped between two cultures. But Duquet runs away, becomes a fur trader, then sets up a timber business. 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “A stunning, bracing, full-tilt ride through three hundred years of US and Canadian history…with the type of full-immersion plot that keeps you curled in your chair, reluctant to stop reading” (\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e showcases Proulx’s inimitable genius of creating characters who are so vivid that we follow them with fierce attention. “This is Proulx at the height of her powers as an irreplaceable American voice” (\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, Grade A), and \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e “is an awesome monument of a book” (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e)—“the masterpiece she was meant to write” (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e). As Anthony Doerr says, “This magnificent novel possesses the dark humor of \u003ci\u003eThe Shipping News\u003c\/i\u003e and the social awareness of ‘Brokeback Mountain.’”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Monumental. [With] prose of directness, clarity, rhythmic power and oaken solidity. . . \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e is a potently imagined chronicle of mankind’s dealings with the North American forests.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Barkskins \u003c\/i\u003eis masterful, full of an urgent, tense lyricism, its plotting beautifully unexpected, its biographical narratives flowing into one another like the seasons. Ambitious. . . A marvel. . .[\u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e] is a long novel worth your time.”\u003cbr\u003e“[It’s] a tale too beautiful to miss, excellent for long afternoons spent swaying in a hammock.”\u003cbr\u003e“Magnificent... \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e flies... One of the chief pleasures of Proulx’s prose is that it conveys you to so many vanished wildwoods, where you get to stand ‘tiny and amazed in the kingdom of pines.’ This is also the great sadness of \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e. The propulsive tension here is generated not by wondering what will happen to each character, but by knowing that the forests will be leveled one after another... If \u003ci\u003eBarkskins \u003c\/i\u003edoesn’t bear exquisite witness to our species’s insatiable appetite for consumption, nothing can.”\u003cbr\u003e\"A masterpiece.\"\u003cbr\u003e“Annie Proulx’s \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u0026amp; Sons parlors. Despite the length, nothing seems extraneous, and not once does the reader sense the story slipping from Proulx’s grasp, resulting in the kind of immersive reading experience that only comes along every few years.”\u003cbr\u003e“Part ecological fable à la Ursula K. Le Guin, part foundational saga along the lines of Brian Moore's Black Robe and, yes, James Michener's Centennial, Proulx's story builds in depth and complication without becoming unduly tangled and is always told with the most beautiful language. Another tremendous book from Proulx, sure to find and enthrall many readers.”\u003cbr\u003e“Proulx’s signature passion and concern for nature as well as her unnerving forensic fascination with all the harm that can befall the human body charge this rigorously researched, intrepidly imagined, complexly plotted, and vigorously written multigenerational epic. [With an] extensive and compelling cast, Proulx’s commanding epic about the annihilation of our forests is nothing less than a sylvan Moby-Dick replete with ardently exacting details about tree cutting from Canada and Maine to Michigan, California, and New Zealand, with dramatic cross-cultural relationships and with the peculiar madness catalyzed by nature’s glory. Here, too, are episodes of profound suffering and loss, ambition and conviction, courage and love. With a forthcoming National Geographic Channel series expanding its reach, Proulx’s commanding, perspective-altering epic will be momentous.”\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e 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. . . \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e is a towering new work of environmental fiction.”\u003cbr\u003e“Annie Proulx returns with a great long read for the summer . . . Worth the wait, [\u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour de force.”\u003cbr\u003e“Fans of Annie Proulx have waited 14 years for a new novel from her. This summer, she has rewarded them. Her eye for detail offers readers glimpses into a world that is almost unimaginable. Proulx's novel will leave readers with new perspectives on a familiar history. It will also, perhaps, make some readers pause, this summer, during a summer stroll perhaps, and consider the manmade environment — the roads, the sidewalks, the homes, the cellphone towers, the flowerbeds — amid the tall, long-lived trees.”\u003cbr\u003e“Stunning, monumental... a moving opus of evolving Western environmental values in novel form.”\u003cbr\u003e“Towering. . . With gorgeous imagery, clean prose and remarkable sensitivity, [\u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e is] as powerful and important as any literary work produced on this continent in the three centuries spanned by the story. “Barkskins” is “The Giving Tree” for grown-ups.”\u003cbr\u003e“Dazzling. . . Proulx’s characters are vivid, insistent, captivating. . . nary a page goes by without a few exquisitely observed historical details. The temptation to consider \u003ci\u003eBarkskins \u003c\/i\u003eunder the rubric of a Great American Novel is difficult to resist, given its scope. But Proulx’s ambitions seem to be keyed differently. Melville’s Moby-Dick, Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, Morrison’s Beloved—all of these books might be doomed in their respective attempts to somehow encompass the United States in its full complexity, but they at least focus on that burgeoning and manifold nation. Proulx, in contrast, establishes in \u003ci\u003eBarkskins \u003c\/i\u003ea narrative so grand in spatial and temporal scope, so broad in theme, that it cannot conceivably be strictly American. Her pitch-perfect sentences, instead, encompass the entire Western world, and its ever-growing concern with ecological and environmental change.”\u003cbr\u003e“Extraordinary. . . \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e is the masterpiece Proulx was meant to write.”\u003cbr\u003e“Enthralling. . . Proulx’s human characters are vividly conceived. \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e brims with a granular sense of human experience over a period of 300 years. And like many novels by excellent writers, \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e encourages understanding, if not empathy, for characters whose outlooks we might usually dismiss. One of the great achievements of this novel is to create a tragic personality for the environment. Proulx’s beautiful prose renders and exultant view of the life of forest worlds lost to us.” \u003cbr\u003e“Like the best realists, Proulx can make us see the world and its inhabitants with greater clarity. Juggling so many different plotlines and characters becomes easier when you have, as Proulx does, a Dickensian gift for quick portraiture... Proulx reminds us that the world we live in was made possible by the destruction of the world that preceded it. The novel concludes with Saptisia Sel, the head of the Breitsprecher Tree Project, asking, ‘Can’t we try again? Can’t we fix what we broke?’ It’s an urgent question, perhaps \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c\/i\u003e urgent question, one that we should all be asking ourselves now.”\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003e‘Barkskins’\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”\u003cbr\u003e“Annie Proulx’s new work is a tribute to the world’s boreal forests, an intricately detailed narrative of geography, history and humanity that is both exhilarating and mesmerizing... [T]his is not a novel to peck at or flick through, but one to read slowly and to savour as a long and fulfilling feast.”\u003cbr\u003e“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.\"\u003cbr\u003e“Few authors are as uniquely qualified as Annie Proulx (\u003ci\u003eThe Shipping News\u003c\/i\u003e) to sustain a novel as long as \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e. Pages melt away as readers zoom through the decades. Proulx’s story is bigger than any one man, one death, or even one culture: It’s about the effect civilization and society have had on the land. In her magical way, Proulx leaves the reader with an impression of not only a collection of people, but \u003ci\u003eour people\u003c\/i\u003e and the country that shaped us as we shaped it. This is Proulx at the height of her powers as an irreplaceable American voice.”\u003cbr\u003e“Annie Proulx weaves [a] wealth of research, [and] brilliant imagination in [her] new novel \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e. Annie Proulx is a fearless writer. Like Melville's whaling and McMurtry's ranching, [\u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e] 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 . . .\u003ci\u003e Barkskins \u003c\/i\u003ehas 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.”\u003cbr\u003e“Annie Proulx’s 10th book is ambitious and essential. \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e is grand entertainment in the tradition of Dickens and Tolstoy. \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e is awesome and urgent. And if we’re lucky enough to survive the Anthropocene we’ve seemingly wrought, then \u003ci\u003eBarkskins\u003c\/i\u003e will surely survive as the crowning achievement of Proulx’s distinguished career, but also as perhaps the greatest environmental novel ever written.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Barkskins\u003c\/i\u003e leaves no board unturned as it covers the industry that brought us plywood, cheap paper and prefab housing. 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