Postcards - Tapa dura

Now published as the perfect gift. Annie Proulx’s 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 Review

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...

Annie Proulx published Postcards in 1991 at the age of 56. Her second novel, The Shipping News, won the Pulitzer, the National Book Award and the Irish Times International Prize. She is also the author of a short-story collection, Heart Songs.