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.Annie Proulx's first novel received huge acclaim and marked the launch of
an outstanding literary career. 'Proulx has come close to writing "the great
American novel" ' New York Times Postcards 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 lives: 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...
