Book
The shipping news / E. Annie Proulx.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780671510053
- ISBN: 0671510053 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 337 p.
- Publisher: New York ; Simon & Schuster, 1994, c1993.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: New York : Scribner's Sons, 1993. "A Touchstone book." |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Winner of a Pulitzer prize, 1994 |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Family > Fiction. Newfoundland > Fiction |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | FIC Proul | 31681002545952 | FICTION | Available | - |
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Surprising transformations take place when a newspaperman's elderly aunt and two daughters decide to move back to their family home on the coast of Newfoundland - Simon and Schuster
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family, and "a rare creation, a lyric page-turner" (Chicago Tribune).
At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman is wrenched violently out of his world when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. 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 Quoyleâs struggle to reclaim his life. As three generations of his family cobble up new lives, Quoyle confronts his private demonsâand the unpredictable forces of nature and societyâand begins to see the possibility of love without pain or misery.
The Shipping News âis charged with sardonic witâalive, funny, a little threatening: packed with brilliantly original imagesâ¦and now and then, a sentence that simply takes your breath awayâ (USA TODAY).
