Barkskins (92 page)
Authors: Annie Proulx
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ANNIE PROULX
is the author of nine previous books, including the novel
The Shipping News
and the story collection
Close Range
. Her many honors include a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize and a PEN/Faulkner Award. Her story “Brokeback Mountain,” which originally appeared in
The New Yorker
, was made into an Academy Awardâwinning film. She lives near Seattle.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Proulx, Annie.
Barkskins : a novel / Annie Proulx.âFirst Scribner hardcover edition.
pages cm
I. Title.
PS3566.R697B37 2016
813'.54âdc23
2015030152
ISBN 978-0-7432-8878-1
ISBN 978-1-4767-7182-3 (ebook)