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"A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary American family. The Shipping News shows why Annie Proulx is recognized as oneof the most gifted and original writers in America today.
The writing is charged with sardonic wit - alive, funny, a little threatening; packed with brilliant original images...and now and then, a sentence that simply takes your breath away.
At 36, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life 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 Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As three generations of his family cobble up newe 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.
Beautifully written. Winner of the PULITZER PRIZE. Stunning and original. Do read it.
National Book Award winner, Pulitzer Prize Fiction, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Pulitzer Prize, made into a movie, Fiction, Newfoundland
The writing is charged with sardonic wit - alive, funny, a little threatening; packed with brilliant original images...and now and then, a sentence that simply takes your breath away.
At 36, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life 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 Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As three generations of his family cobble up newe 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.
Beautifully written. Winner of the PULITZER PRIZE. Stunning and original. Do read it.
National Book Award winner, Pulitzer Prize Fiction, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Pulitzer Prize, made into a movie, Fiction, Newfoundland
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