Postcards
Description
E. Annie Proulx's first novel, Postcards, winner of the 1993 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction, 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. Blood's odyssey begins in 1944 and takes him across the country from his hardscrabble Vermont hill farm to New York, across Ohio, Minnesota, and Montana to British Columbia, on to North Dakota, Wyoming, and New Mexico and ends, today, in California, with Blood homeless and near mad. Along the way, he must live a hundred lives to survive, mining gold, growing beans, hunting fossils and trapping, prospecting for uranium, and ranching. In his absence, disaster befalls his family; greatest among their terrible losses are the hard-won values of endurance and pride that were the legacy of farm people rooted in generations of intimacy with soil, weather, plants, and seasons. Postcards chronicles the lives of the rural and the dispossessed and charts their territory with the historical verisimilitude and writerly prowess of Cather, Dreiser, and Faulkner. It is a new American classic.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2021-10-13
- 256 pages
- Ebook
- Reaktion Books
-
- 2010
- 234 pages
- Paperback
- Pennsylvania State University Press
Similar books
-
Postcards
By Annie ProulxFrom 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.
-
Postcards from Penguin: One Hundred Book Covers in One Box
By PenguinA collection of 100 postcards, each featuring a different and iconic Penguin book jacket. From classics to crime, here are over seventy years of quintessentially British design in one box.
-
National Parks of the USA Postcards
By Kate SiberNational Parks of the USA Postcards is a set of 52 postcards, each with a different design, offering illustrated snapshots of America's most awe-inspiring sights: its national parks!
-
Bibliophilia: 100 Literary Postcards
Bibliophilia: 100 Literary Postcards
-
Postcards from the Edge
By Carrie FisherThis bestselling Hollywood novel by the witty author of Wishful Drinking and Shockaholic that was made into a movie starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine.
-
Postcards from the Boys
By Ringo StarrWhenever John, Paul, or George went on a trip, they would send Ringo a postcard. Now, for the first time, Ringo Starr is opening his private archive to share this delightful and very intimate correspondence.
-
Galesburg Illinois in Vintage Postcards
By Carley R. RobisonGalesburg, Illinois, is a town proud of its history and heritage.
-
Black Postcards: A Memoir
By Dean WarehamBlack Postcards is a must-have for Wareham's many fans, anyone who has ever been in a band, or the listeners who have taken an interest in the indie rock scene over the last twenty years.
-
Roses: 100 Postcards from the Archives of the New York Botanical Garden
By The New York Botanical GardenThis elegant, 100-postcard box features beautiful illustrations of roses, the flower world's most iconic bloom.
-
Postcards from Vogue: 100 Iconic Covers
A collection of 100 postcards, each featuring a striking cover from American Vogue. From early aspirational illustrations to modern celebrity photography, this is a stunning selection of Vogue's most dazzling images.