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  • Winner of a Pulitzer Prize
    Annie Proulx

    The novel Barkskins (2016) charts the wide-reaching ramifications of deforestation through the story of two Frenchmen who arrive in New France (now in Canada) in 1693 and work as woodcutters in exchange for land. The novel traces their vicissitudes and those of their descendants, many of whom…

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    The novel Barkskins (2016) charts the wide-reaching ramifications of deforestation through the story of two Frenchmen who arrive in New France (now in Canada) in 1693 and work as woodcutters in exchange for land. The novel traces their vicissitudes and those of their descendants, many of whom…

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  • Marcia Gay Harden
    Marcia Gay Harden

    …series based on Annie Proulx’s novel of the same name. In the comedy series Uncoupled (2022– ), Harden played a socialite whose husband leaves her for a much younger woman.

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    …series based on Annie Proulx’s novel of the same name. In the comedy series Uncoupled (2022– ), Harden played a socialite whose husband leaves her for a much younger woman.

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