num_pages: 308
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.
language: English
title: Postcards
titlecomplete: Postcards
genres: American, Short Stories, The United States Of America, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Americana
ratings_count: 5674
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
publisher: Scribner