Book description
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. '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 Annie Proulx published her first novel
'Postcards' in 1991 at the age of 56. 'The Shipping News' won the
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Award and the Irish Times
International Prize. Her third novel, 'Accordion Crimes', was published
in 1996. She is also the author of three short-story collections, 'Heart
Songs' (1994), 'Close Range' (1999) and 'Bad Dirt' (2004). 'Brokeback
Mountain' was made into an Oscar-winning film in 2005. 'Fine Just the
Way It Is', her third collection of Wyoming short stories, was published
in 2008.
