Postcards |
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| Author:
| Proulx, Annie |
| ISBN: | 978-0-684-83368-2 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1996 |
| Publisher: | Scribner
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| Imprint: | Scribner |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $25.00 |
Book Description:
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx's first novel,Postcards, tells the mesmerizing tale of Loyal Blood, who misspends a lifetime running from a crime so terrible that it renders him forever incapable of touching a woman. From the bestselling author of
Brokeback Mountain comes
Postcards, the tale of the Blood family, New England farmers who must confront the twentieth century--and their own extinction. As the family slowly disintegrates,...
More Description Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx's first novel,Postcards, tells the mesmerizing tale of Loyal Blood, who misspends a lifetime running from a crime so terrible that it renders him forever incapable of touching a woman.
From the bestselling author of Brokeback Mountain comes Postcards, the tale of the Blood family, New England farmers who must confront the twentieth century--and their own extinction. As the family slowly disintegrates, its members struggle valiantly against the powerful forces of loneliness and necessity, seeking a sense of home and place forever lost.
Loyal Blood, eldest son, is forced to abandon the farm when he takes his lover's life, thus beginning a quintessentially American odyssey of solitude and adventure. Yearning for love, yet forced by circumstance to be always alone, Loyal comes to symbolize the alienation and frustration behind the American dream.