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Book CLub: Discussion of Postcards by Annie Proulx

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Front-Ranger:
A quote from page 5:


--- Quote ---"Evening haze rose off the hardwood slopes and blurred a sky discolored like a stained silk skirt. He saw and heard everything with brutal clarity...."
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Annie Proulx is talking about Loyal Blood here, who's just been through a traumatic experience. What a way to start a novel! That AP demands the most from herself and from her readers!! We'll see this "brutal clarity" again...in fact, I call it The Brokeback Effect.

Front-Ranger:
I always imagine Merville as being played by Reese Witherspoon. Anybody else see that? Now, things are getting complicated because Joaquin and Reese played together in that Johnny Cash biopic, "Walk the Line."

Front-Ranger:

--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 11, 2006, 12:45:25 pm ---For those of you who are reading Postcards, note the discussion of the milkweed pods in the first chapter. I missed it the first time around, and I think it's a significant detail. I didn't see anything similar in Brokeback Mountain about plants. They didn't seem to play a big role, except for small mentions of colombine and lodgepole pine trees. Or, did I miss something?

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I thought I'd resurrect this thread as we began talking about milkweed on another one. The novel Postcards helped me understand the Great Depression and the people who lived through it. So, it helped me understand my parents, primarily my father, who came of age during the Depression. It's about a family on a dairy farm in Pennsylvania and how economic hardship scattered them.

Front-Ranger:
I thought of Merville when I read in the page "Monarch Flyway" that people could make money collecting milkweed pods.

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