The Shipping News
by E. Annie Proulx
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0671510053
- ISBN 13
- 9780671510053
- Seller
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Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
1st printing. Near Fine softcover. Bright, clean, square covers and spine; some dust spotting on text block edges; tightly bound; bright, clean interior. 8vo, 337 pp.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Madden Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B01657
- Title
- The Shipping News
- Author
- E. Annie Proulx
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Touchstone ed.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0671510053
- ISBN 13
- 9780671510053
- Publisher
- New York: Simon and Schuster/Touchstone Book
- Place of Publication
- Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1994
- LCCN
- 94016863
- Dewey
- 813/.54
- Keywords
- Award Winners; Canadian; Classics; Domestic fiction; Fiction; Literary; Media Tie-In; Newfoundland
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature;
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