The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (1999, Hardcover) 
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (1999, Hardcover)

 
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (1999, Hardcover)

Author: Annie Proulx
Publisher: Scribner
Publication Date: 1999-05-10
Series: Scribner Classics
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 068485791X
ISBN-13: 9780684857916
Product ID: EPID1620345
Description: In this lively dark comedy, a hapless man named Quoyle is grief-stricken after his no-good wife dies in a car crash. He packs up his dog, his children, and an ancient aunt and returns to the old family home in the town of Killick-Claw, o...
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Synopsis
In this lively dark comedy, a hapless man named Quoyle is grief-stricken after his no-good wife dies in a car crash. He packs up his dog, his children, and an ancient aunt and returns to the old family home in the town of Killick-Claw, on the coast of Newfoundland, where he gets a job with the local newspaper covering the shipping news. Gradually, with the help of some members of the local population (in particular a young woman named Wavey), Quoyle becomes able to handle his life and become a good father to his children. THE SHIPPING NEWS won Annie Proulx the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. It was made into a movie in 2001, starring Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett, and Judi Dench.

Details
Publication Date:1999-05-10
Series:Scribner Classics

Size
Length:337 pages
Height:10.0 in
Width:6.8 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:20.8 oz

Publisher's Note
This darkly comic, wonderfully inventive novel transforms the lore of Newfoundland -- including shipwrecks, nautical knot-tying, horrid weather and family legend -- into a brilliant work of literature. Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters to return with her to the starkly beautiful coastal landscape of their ancestral home in Newfoundland. Here, on desolate Quoyle's Point, in a house empty except for a few reminders of the family's unsavory past, the battered members of three generations try to rebuild their lives. A vigorous, jarring, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary family, The Shipping News enlightens readers to the powers of Proulx's storytelling genius and her expert evocation of time and place. She is truly one of the most gifted and original writers working today.

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