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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780684800875
ISBN: 068480087X
Label: Scribner
Manufacturer: Scribner
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: August 01, 1994
Publisher: Scribner
Sales Rank: 381899
Studio: Scribner
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Product 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.
Amazon.com Review:
Reproduced as graphics that preface narrative sections, the postcards in this novel -- communications between the Blood family and their son Loyal, as well as other personal mail and advertising material -- progressively reveal the insecurity of the rural Bloods in the changing post-war world. Loyal has fled into exile after an accidental killing, but cannot find a haven of rest. The family patriarch, Mink, writes vitriolic letters to local agricultural agents when the real object of his ire is his absent son. Loyal's brother sends off for an artificial arm to replace the one he lost in an accident; his sister answers a mail order ad for a husband. Through the mail, Proulx inventively reveals the inchoate longings of a difficult existence in this winner of the 1993 PEN/Faulkner Award.
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Rating:  -
Annie Proulx's style of writing is unique. Her acute understanding and ability to express the vicissitudes of human behavior and reactions to the stimulus provided by life are in-depth and wide ranging. These very attributes are what have, upon very infrequent occasion, caused those readers unable to get into her writing rhythm to dismiss her literary prowess.
I am not one of those few and while considering reading any of her books a literary treat I found "Postcards" to be one of the ... Read More
Rating:  -
This is really quite a fine work. I am wholly impressed by the world Proulx reveals. Existential without the weepy, woe-is-me flavor that pervades the genre. A classic at the outset, this novel spans five decades of failed pursuit of the American Dream. A considerable achievement for any author, this is a brilliant work as a debut. Nicely done in every regard.
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I forgot how much I really liked this book. After my, oh, sixth or seventh read, I have to say there is much to admire with just a few complaints. Proulx is unique and her characters are almost always hardboiled and flawed, her settings depict harsh landscapes and tough surroundings : that's her, that's what she writes about. She's a realist, but appears to hold up every detail for examination, every act for rehashing, and her details can become so overloaded that I have to back up and reread just ... Read More
Rating:  -
I picked up this book because I was so impressed and entranced with the Shipping News... I was sorely disappointed. Everything I enjoyed about the Shipping News (the lovely flow, the fully realized characters whom you grew to care about, the simple and clear vision) was missing from this novel. It felt fragmented, confusing, muddled... and I had no sympathy with the characters because they seemed rather one dimensional. I would hate for people to neglect reading the wonderful Shipping News because ... Read More
Rating:  -
I thought that I would never finish reading this book. That is how riveting it is. Postcards was tedious and bleak. I would read a few pages and put it down for months. I had to force myself to read it because I do not like to leave things unfinished, no matter how mundane the story. I had hoped that the story would become interesting.
I agree with the reviewer that gave this book 1 star for its burn value. I give it 1 star because, unfortunatley, that is a low as you can go in order ... Read More
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