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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The Shipping News
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Hapless, lovable Quoyle takes his two daughters and aunt back to the ancestral home in Newfoundland, following the death of his nasty parents and even nastier wife. He goes to work for the local paper, the aptly named Gammy Bird, writing up shipping news and car crashes ("We run a front-page photo of a car wreck every week, whether we have a wreck or not" is managing editor Tert Card's golden rule.) Despite his job and a string of equally hilarious and demoralizing incidents, however, Quoyle finds the inner resources to master (or at least survive) his fate.
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Domestic fiction, Family, Fiction, American literature, Families, National Book Award Winner, Women authors, award:national_book_award=1993, award:national_book_award=fiction, United States, English fiction, Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction., Livres en gros caractères, Large type books, Counselors, Supervision of, Psychotherapy, Education, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, Social Services & Welfare, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Human Services, Supervision, Beratung, Fiction, family life, Newfoundland and labrador, fiction, Fiction, family life, general, Journalists, fictionPeople
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2008, Harper Perennial
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Noeuds et dénouement
March 31, 1999, Rivages
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The Shipping News
1994, Simon & Schuster
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The Shipping News
1994, Wheeler Publishing
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1994, Simon & Schuster
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The Shipping News
1993, Fourth Estate
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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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