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The Shipping News : An Excerpt

by Proulx, E. Annie

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992. 45 pp. 8vo. Pictorial wrappers. Fine small fold at bottom of upper cover. 45 pp. 8vo. Signed.

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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Title
The Shipping News : An Excerpt
Author
Proulx, E. Annie
Format/Binding
45 pp. 8vo
Book Condition
Used - Pictorial wrappers. Fine small fold at bottom of upper cover
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Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1992
Keywords
American

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