description: Now published as the perfect gift. Annie Proulxs first novel received huge acclaim and marked the launch of a outstanding literary career.Proulx has come close to writing "the great American novel" New York Times Book ReviewPostcards is the story of Loyal Blood, a man who spends a lifetime on the run from a crime so terrible that it renders him forever incapable of touching a woman. The odyssey begins on a freezing Vermont hillside in 1944 and propels Blood across the American West for 40 years. Denied love and unable to settle, he lives a hundred different mining gold, growing beans, hunting fossils, trapping, prospecting for uranium and ranching. His only contact with his past is through a series of postcards he sends home not realising that in his absence disaster has befallen his family, and their deep-rooted connection with the land has been severed with devastating consequences
language: English
title: Postcards
titlecomplete: Postcards
genres: Literature, American, Literary Fiction, Novels, Americana, Historical Fiction, Short Stories, Fiction, The United States Of America, Contemporary
ratings_count: 5674
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
publisher: Fourth Estate