The Shipping News
by Proulx, E. Annie
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 068419337X
- ISBN 13
- 9780684193373
- Seller
-
Lakewood, Colorado, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
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.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Evergreen Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ABE-1033710117
- Title
- The Shipping News
- Author
- Proulx, E. Annie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 068419337X
- ISBN 13
- 9780684193373
- Publisher
- Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- FICTION NEWFOUNDLAND LABRADOR
Terms of Sale
Evergreen Books LLC
About the Seller
Evergreen Books LLC
About Evergreen Books LLC
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- O/W
- An abbreviation for otherwise
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.