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The Shipping News
by Proulx, E. Annie
- Used
- fine
- hardcover
- Signed
- First
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 068419337X
- ISBN 13
- 9780684193373
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois
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£767.36
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's & Sons, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Proulx on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($20.00). Quarter blue cloth with light green paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Proulx's National Book Award- an Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about "the cracked-up contemporary American family.
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
- book dealer
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller’s Inventory #
- 6312
- Title
- The Shipping News
- Author
- Proulx, E. Annie
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- second hand - Fine
- Jacket condition
- Fine
- Quantity available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 068419337X
- ISBN 13
- 9780684193373
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's & Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- American Literature, Contemporary Fiction, 20th Century Literature
Terms of Sale
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