The Shipping News - Paperback
by Annie Proulx
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9780671510053ISBN-10:671510053UPC:9780671510053Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Classics, HistoricalAward:1995 Book Sense Book of the Year Award Honor Book - Adult AwardSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.85 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCJSEXHWAH
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family, and "a rare creation, a lyric page-turner" (Chicago Tribune). At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman is wrenched violently out of his world when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As three generations of his family cobble up new lives, Quoyle confronts his private demons--and the unpredictable forces of nature and society--and begins to see the possibility of love without pain or misery. The Shipping News "is charged with sardonic wit--alive, funny, a little threatening: packed with brilliantly original images...and now and then, a sentence that simply takes your breath away" (USA TODAY).
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9780671510053ISBN-10:671510053UPC:9780671510053Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Classics, HistoricalAward:1995 Book Sense Book of the Year Award Honor Book - Adult AwardSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.85 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCJSEXHWAH
Annie Proulx is the author of nine books, including the novels The Shipping News and Barkskins, and the story collection Close Range. Her many honors include a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and a PEN/Faulkner award. Her story "Brokeback Mountain," which originally appeared in The New Yorker, was made into an Academy Award-winning film. Fen, Bog, and Swamp is her second work of nonfiction. She lives in New Hampshire.
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🏆 1995 Book Sense Book of the Year Award Honor Book - Adult Award
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