Category - Fiction / General Fiction
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Excellent
Listed - 2 years ago
Views - 31
Wishes - 2
Ships From - Pennsylvania
Est. Publication Date - Nov 1996
Seller Description
#fiction#hardcover 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.
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The tale of the Blood family, New England farmers who must confront the twentieth century--and their own extinction.
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