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Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books

Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books, talking to authors and publishers and unearthing lost classics

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Mariella Frostrup

Annie Proulx

Sarah Dillon

Open Book: Annie Proulx; Close Reading: Beloved by Toni Morrison; Graham Greene's The Third Man

19/06/2016

Annie Proulx; Close Reading: Beloved by Toni Morrison; Graham Greene's The Third Man

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Annie Proulx; Close Reading: Beloved by Toni Morrison; Graham Greene's The Third Man

Mariella Frostrup talks to Annie Proulx about her new novel, Barkskins.

Mariella Frostrup talks to Annie Proulx about her new novel, Barkskins, an epic work that spans over 300 years.

Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx's latest novel Barkskins is a 700 page epic which opens with some of the first Europeans to settle in the New World and follows their descendants over three hundred years to the present day. The novel explores man's relationship with nature, and the way that generations of people have exploited the environment - particularly the forests of North America. Annie Proulx talks to Mariella Frostrup.

Also on the programme, Dr Sarah Dillon examines the qualities of Toni Morrison's writing in her great novel Beloved, and the story behind Graham Greene's The Third Man.

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