| Postcards Contributor(s): Proulx, Annie (Author) |
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ISBN: 068480087X ISBN-13: 9780684800875 Publisher: Scribner Book Company OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1994 Annotation: Loyal Blood is forced to abandon his Vermont farm when he commits the most terrible of crimes. Thus begins an odyssey that stretches from New England to the coast of California. Blood mines gold, prospects for uranium, grows beans, ranches, traps, and hunts for fossils. Teeming with historical detail and powerful portraits, Proulx's mesmerizing first novel is a new American classic. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 91025089 |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 5.52" W x 8.42" (0.64 lbs) 320 pages |
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| Publisher Description: From the bestselling author of The Shipping News 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 |
Contributor Bio(s): Proulx, Annie: - Annie Proulx is the author of eight 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 Award-winning film. Her most recent novel is Barkskins. She lives in Seattle. |