The Shipping News
Author(s): Annie Proulx
Reissued to coincide with the release of her new novel 'That Old Ace in the Hole', Annie Proulx's highly acclaimed, international best-seller and Pulitzer prize-winning novel. Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. When his no-good wife is killed in a spectacular road accident, Quoyle heads for the land of his forefathers -- the remotest corner of far-flung Newfoundland. With 'the aunt' and his delinquent daughters -- Bunny and Sunshine -- in tow, Quoyle finds himself part of an unfolding, exhilarating Atlantic drama. The Shipping News is an irresistible comedy of human life and possibility. 'To read The Shipping News is to yearn to be sitting in The Flying Squid Lunchstop, eating Seal Fin curry, watching the icebergs clink together in the bay.' The Times
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Winner of United States National Book Awards: Fiction 1993 and Pulitzer Prize Fiction Category 1994 and Irish Times Literary Prize: International Fiction Category 1994 and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1994.
* 'A very impressive achievement. So funny, so full of delights.' Guardian * 'As stark and ruggedly beautiful as the storm-battered coast of Newfoundland itself.' Sunday Telegraph * 'Ambitious and accomplished ... The characterisation is rich, the dialogue both original and convincing.' Alan Massie, Scotsman 'A stunning novel.' Observer 'To read The Shipping News is to yearn to be sitting in The Flying Squid Lunchstop, eating Seal Fin Curry, watching the icebergs clink together in the bay.' The Times
General Fields
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- : HarperCollins
- : Fourth Estate
- : 0.272
- : 31 May 1994
- : books
Special Fields
- : Annie Proulx
- : Annie Proulx
- : Paperback
- : en
- : 813.54
- : very good
