Book 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.
Geoffrey Stokes The Boston Sunday Globe E.
Annie Proulx's Postcards triumphantly delivers.
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 book is Fine Just the Way It
Is. She lives in Wyoming.
