BARKSKINS by Annie Proulx (2016) ~ SIGNED+DATED ~ First Edition, First Printing

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Signed+Dated , Brand New, First Edition, First Printing, Hardcover/Dust Jacket, List: $32BarkskinsbyAnnie ProulxProulx'd works of fiction are Heart Songs and Other Stories (1988); Postcards (1992), for which she won the PEN/Faulkner Award; The Shipping News (1993), for which she won the National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize; Accordion Crimes (1996), for which she won the Dos Passos Prize for Literature; Close Range: Wyoming Stories (1999); That Old Ace in the Hole (2002), for which she won Best Foreign Language Novel from the Chinese Publishing Association; Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 (2004); Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 (2009); and Barkskins (2016). She is also the author of Bird Cloud: A Memoir of a Place (2011).First Edition, First Printing, hand SIGNED/DATED , in my presence, to full title page.No inscription; full signature + June 14, 2016 only.Note: Barkskins was published on June 14, 2016.From an event featuring Annie Proulx in conversation with Adam Gopnik in New York City on June 14, 2016.BONUSES: The complete six-page program (see photo 11) + the complete 16-page booklet for the Winter/Spring 2016 Unterberg Poetry Center (see photo 12) + a copy of one book review are included.Please only bid if you will pay within five days of auction's end.All domestic sales of $25 or more will be wrapped and shipped in a box.Shipping & Handling for USPS Media Mail is $3.95 (includes USPS Tracking )Shipping & Handling for USPS Priority Mail Flat Rate envelope is $6.95 (includes USPS Tracking )Shipping & Handling for USPS Priority Mail International Flat Rate envelope is $36.95I provide the highest quality author signed, first edition books.100% authentic guaranteed - This is my COA "Certificate of Authenticity". I won't sell any signed book that I'm not 100% sure is hand signed by the author. I attended this Annie Proulx in conversation with Adam Gopnik event in New York City on June 14, 2016.I'm not happy unless you are!Please email any questions.Thanks!"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 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." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review"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." Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)"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." -- Booklist, Starred Review"[It's... read more

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