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Postcards

"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 live, 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."

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  • "Postcards"@pl
  • "Postcards"@it

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  • ""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 live, 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.""@en
  • "In het midden van de 20e eeuw vermoordt een Amerikaanse boer zijn verloofde en zet zijn leven zwervend voort."
  • "Postcards is the story of Loyal Blood who spends a lifetime on the run from a crime he committed in 1944. Loyal traverses the American West for forty years, living a hundred different lives. 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."@en
  • "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."@en
  • "The Blood family, New England farmers, face the powers of loneliness and necessity, as they struggle to survive and maintain the American dream."@en
  • "Loyal Blood inalterably changes the course of his life and the fortunes of his family members when he deserts the family's New England farm after accidently killing his lover."@en
  • "The mesmerizing saga of a New England farm family who must confront the twentieth century."
  • "E. Annie Proulx's first novel, -- 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."@en
  • ""Blood family, New England farmers must confront the twentieth century--and their own looming extinction."--Page 4 of cover."
  • "Postcards are the only communication between Loyal Blood and the poor, hardworking farm family he leaves behind in Vermont. The secret Loyal carries with him--the accidental killing of his girlfriend, Billy--is revealed in the first pages, and thereafter, as he prospects for uranium, traps coyotes, or digs for dinosaur bones, his messages continue to arrive home from across the U.S., long after his father has died and his brother, sister, and mother have moved away."
  • "Postcards are the only communication between Loyal Blood and the poor, hardworking farm family he leaves behind in Vermont. The secret Loyal carries with him--the accidental killing of his girlfriend, Billy--is revealed in the first pages, and thereafter, as he prospects for uranium, traps coyotes, or digs for dinosaur bones, his messages continue to arrive home from across the U. S., long after his father has died and his brother, sister, and mother have moved away."
  • "The tale of the Blood family, New England farmers who must confront the twentieth century--and their own extinction."
  • "" ... The story 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."--Page 4 of cover."@en

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  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Roman américain"
  • "Translations"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Pastoral fiction"
  • "Pastoral fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Uncorrected proofs"

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  • "Pocztówki"
  • "Pocztówki"@pl
  • "Postales"
  • "Postales"@es
  • "Postkarten"
  • "Cartes postales"
  • "Postcards : a novel"
  • "Ansichten"
  • "Postcards: a novel"
  • "Postcards"@en
  • "Postcards"
  • "Postkarten : Roman"
  • "Cartes postales : roman"
  • "Postkarten Roman"
  • "Cartoline"@it
  • "Cartoline"

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