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The Shipping News
by Proulx, E. Annie
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- ISBN 10
- 0020360789
- ISBN 13
- 9780020360780
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Synopsis
Edna Annie Proulx is an American journalist and author. Her second novel, The Shipping News , won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for fiction in 1994. The novel centers on Quoyle, a third-rate hack journalist who lives and works in upstate New York. His parents’ commit suicide and his adulterous, abusive wife sells their daughters to a black market adoption agency. When his wife dies in a car accident, his aunt persuades him to retreat to their ancestral home in Newfoundland for a new beginning. There, Quoyle grows in fortitude and emotional strength while learning disturbing secrets about his family’s past. Proulx’s writing is original and startling, a darkly humorous portrait of the unpredictability of human nature.
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- Seller
- Bonita
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 0020360789.G
- Title
- The Shipping News
- Author
- Proulx, E. Annie
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0020360789
- ISBN 13
- 9780020360780
- Publisher
- Simon And Schuster, 1994
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1994