Издания и произведения

В 1944 году Лоял Блад тайно хоронит тело случайно убитой им подруги на каменистом склоне холма в Вермонте и пускается в бега... Вся его дальнейшая жизнь — бессмысленные и бесцельные скитания по американскому Западу длиной в сорок лет, случайные заработки, панический страх полюбить, остепениться… Единственный контакт с семьей и прошлым — открытки без обратного адреса. Лоял шлет их снова и снова, даже не зная, насколько все изменилось на его родине и есть ли еще, кому читать эти открытки...

On a Vermont hillside in 1944, Loyal Blood buries his dead girlfriend under the rocks of a stone wall. For the next forty years, Loyal is on the run from this terrible crime, leaving him forever incapable of touching another woman and sending him aimlessly across the American West. Denied love and unable to settle, Loyal lives a hundred different lives: mining gold, growing beans, hunting fossils, trapping, prospecting for uranium and ranching. The only contact with his past is through a series of postcards with no return address. With no chance of two-way communication, Loyal is unaware that in his absence disaster has befallen his…

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…