Annie Proulx

Postcards (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781416588917
• Artikelnr.: 37873555

Autorenporträt

Annie Proulx published her first novel `Postcards¿ in 1991 at the age of 56. `The Shipping News¿ won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the National Book Award and the Irish Times International Prize. Her third novel, `Accordion Crimes¿, was published in 1996. She is also the author of three short-story collections, `Heart Songs¿ (1994), `Close Range¿ (1999) and `Bad Dirt¿ (2004). `Brokeback Mountain¿ was made into an Oscar-winning film in 2005. `Fine Just the Way It Is¿, her third collection of Wyoming short stories, was published in 2008.