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The Shipping News by Annie Proulx (1994, Trade Paperback)
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx's The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family. Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a "head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips," 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 mementos of the family's unsavory past, the battered members of three generations try to cobble up new lives. Newfoundland is a country of coast and cove where the mercury rarely rises above seventy degrees, the local culinary delicacy is cod cheeks, and it's easier to travel by boat and snowmobile than on anything with wheels. In this harsh place of cruel storms, a collapsing fishery, and chronic unemployment, the aunt sets up as a yacht upholsterer in nearby Killick-Claw, and Quoyle finds a job reporting the shipping news for the local weekly, the Gammy Bird (a paper that specializes in sexual-abuse stories and grisly photos of car accidents). As the long winter closes its jaws of ice, each of the Quoyles confronts private demons, reels from catastrophe to minor triumph--in the company of the obsequious Mavis Bangs; Diddy Shovel the strongman; drowned Herald Prowse; cane-twirling Beety; Nutbeem, who steals foreign news from the radio; a demented cousin the aunt refuses to recognize; the much-zippered Alvin Yark; silent Wavey; and old Billy Pretty, with his bag of secrets. By the time of the spring storms Quoyle has learned how to gut cod, to escape from a pickle jar, and to tie a true lover's knot.Product Identifiers
PublisherScribner
ISBN-100671510053
ISBN-139780671510053
eBay Product ID (ePID)12551
Product Key Features
Book TitleShipping News
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicClassics, Family Life, Literary, Historical
Publication Year1994
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorAnnie Proulx
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight10.4 Oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewsBruce AllenUSA TodayThe writing 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., Bruce Allen USA Today The writing 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., Roz SpaffordSan Francisco Examiner & ChronicleAnnie Proulx's stunning, big-heartedThe Shipping Newsthaws the frozen lives of its characters and warms readers., Roz Spafford San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle Annie Proulx's stunning, big-hearted The Shipping News thaws the frozen lives of its characters and warms readers.
Dewey Edition21
Lccn94-016863
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Lc Classification NumberPs3566.R697s4 1994b
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- Feb 02, 2021
boring
If the characters were more likeable. They are not interesting and their fate is of little interest. However, the writing style was different and kept me reading a few pages more than I might have.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Aug 29, 2018
A good read requiring some patience
This was not the easiest book to get through but you finally are able to get a window into the characters' souls as the book progresses. This book has excellent insight on human behavior.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
