E. Annie Proulx - Postcards
OverzichtConditie | redelijk [hoekjes kaft stootplekjes] |
Aantal pagina`s | 340 |
Uitgavejaar | 1993 |
Uitgegeven door | Flamingo/HarperCollins Publishers |
Kaft | paperback |
ISBN | 9780006546689 |
Code [intern] | SBNL26 |
Beschrijving boek
Postcards is the 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 and propels Blood across the American West for forty years. Denied love and unable to settle, he lives a hundred different lives: mining gold, growing beans, hunting fossils, trapping, prospecting for uranium and 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, and their deep-rooted connection with the land has been severed with devastating consequences...