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Postcards (INSCRIBED)
Postcards (INSCRIBED)
Postcards (INSCRIBED)
Postcards (INSCRIBED)
Postcards (INSCRIBED)
Postcards (INSCRIBED)

Postcards (INSCRIBED)

 PROULX, E. Annie.

Postcards.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (number line complete to 1). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992.

Inscribed on the title page in the author's hand: "Yeah ----- a cold vicious / day in Vermont. Write / your brains out - / Annie Proulx." Proulx was living and writing in Vermont when Postcards was published, and the inscription — bracing, plain-spoken, in the voice of a working writer — is characteristic of her. 8vo. 308, [1] pp. Quarter brown cloth over speckled beige paper-covered boards; in the original illustrated dust jacket, unclipped ($22.95). Near fine in a like dust jacket.

Postcards itself follows Loyal Blood, eldest son of a failing New England farm family, who flees after a violent crime and spends the next half-century adrift across the postwar American West while the family he left behind slowly comes apart. The narrative is interleaved with reproduced postcards from the Bloods' scattered correspondence — the formal device that gives the novel its title and its structure.

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