An edition of The Shipping News (1993)

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An edition of The Shipping News (1993)

The Shipping News

1994 paperback edition (40)
  • 4.0 (27 ratings) ·
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  • 44 Have read

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 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.
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English
Pages
355

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1994, Fourth Estate
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1994, Simon & Schuster
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The Shipping News
1993, Fourth Estate
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UK

Published in
London
Copyright Date
1993

Contributors

Cover Design
Anna Morrison

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
355p.
Number of pages
355
Dimensions
19.7 x 13 x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25217120M
Internet Archive
shippingnews0000prou_u1z9
ISBN 10
1857022424
ISBN 13
9781857022421
amazon.co.uk_asin
1330240907
Goodreads
56879054

Work Description

At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just deserts. 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.

A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary American family, The Shipping News shows why E. Annie Proulx is recognized as one of the most gifted and original writers in America today.

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Here is an account of a few years in the life of Quoyle, born in Brooklyn and raised in a shuffle of dreary upstate towns.
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