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The Shipping News

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The winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, The Shipping News is a stunning, big-hearted novel that beautifully blends pulse-thumping romance, fishing lore, and wildly eccentric characters. Meet Quoyle, a timid New York newspaperman whose two-timing wife has finally disappeared for good. Devastated, he retreats to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful coast of Newfoundland, where he hopes to cobble up a new life. Quoyles pain is as harsh… More >>

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Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News: A Reader’s Guide

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This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years – from ‘The Remains of the Day’ to ‘White Teeth’. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question…. More >>

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The Shipping News : A Novel

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When Quoyle’s two-timing wife meets her just deserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters and family members all play a part in Quoyle’s struggle to reclaim his life. As Quoyle confronts his private demons — and the unpredictable forces of nature and society — he begins to see the possibility of love without pain or misery. A vigorous, darkly comic, and at … More >>

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