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The Shipping News
by Proulx, E. Annie
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very near Fine/very near Fine
- Seller
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Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons [1993], 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [12], 337, [3] pp. Quarter blue cloth over blue-grey paper boards with black lettering on the spine. Price of $20.00 on front flap of jacket.
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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- Bookseller
- Evening Star Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00002371
- Title
- The Shipping News
- Author
- Proulx, E. Annie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons [1993]
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
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Evening Star Books
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