{"product_id":"to-2026-101","title":"Postcards (INSCRIBED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e PROULX, E. Annie. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePostcards.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING\u003c\/strong\u003e (number line complete to 1). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eInscribed 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 \u003cem\u003ePostcards\u003c\/em\u003e was published, and the inscription — bracing, plain-spoken, in the voice of a working writer — is characteristic of her. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e8vo. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePostcards\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-101\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Proulx, E. Annie","offers":[{"title":"Near Fine","offer_id":46459954495649,"sku":"TO-2026-101","price":425.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-101_01.jpg?v=1784602959","url":"https:\/\/twoorangesbooks.com\/products\/to-2026-101","provider":"Two Oranges Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}