This is 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 & propels Blood across the American West for forty years Denied love & unable to settle he lives a hundred different lives mining gold growing beans hunting fossils trapping prospecting for uranium & 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 & their deep-rooted connection with the land has been severed with devastating consequences Postcards' was Annie Proulx's first novel which received huge acclaim & marked the launch of an outstanding literary career Her works include short story collections Bad Dirt' Close Range' (featuring Brokeback Mountain') & novels such as The Shipping News' & Accordion Crimes'