Easton Press. Very Good. 2008. Leather Bound. SIGNED by author. Note and COA laid in, as issued. Full brown leather gilt, all edges gilt. Small smudge on blank end paper, otherwise fine copy. .

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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: Isaiah Thomas Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: S2-PUV3-PUQX
Title: The Shipping News
Author: Proulx, E. Annie
Format/Binding: Leather Bound
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Easton Press
Date Published: 2008

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