The Shipping News
by E. Annie Proulx
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 9110836950
- ISBN 13
- 9789110836952
- Seller
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Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
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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
- Dunaway Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 208785
- Title
- The Shipping News
- Author
- E. Annie Proulx
- Format/Binding
- Paper Back
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 9110836950
- ISBN 13
- 9789110836952
- Publisher
- Scribner's
- Date Published
- 1993
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