Annie Proulx’s highly acclaimed, international bestseller 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.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9781857022421
Number of pages: 368
Weight: 270 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 24 mm
‘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
With her very distinctive voice, her cast of impossibly quirky characters and the beauty of her prose, Proulx has written a gem of a book. She can invoke more humanity in a single sentence than most writers can... More
This is a beautifully written and researched novel. It is a tale of hope, the importance of roots and love.
Whilst Proulx populates the narrative with eccentric but believable characters, the main protagonist is the...
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