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Product Details
Scribner, January 2008
eBook, 368 pages
ISBN-10: 0743519809
ISBN-13: 9780743519809
Book Club Pick
Get the reading group guideAwards and Nominations
- Pulitzer Prize
- National Book Award Winner
Description
When Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just desserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters and family members all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As Quoyle confronts his private demons -- and the unpredictable forces of nature and society -- he begins to see the possibility of love without pain or misery.
A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family, The Shipping News shows why Annie Proulx is recognized as one of the most gifted and original writers in America today.
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Stephen Jones Chicago Tribune The Shipping News is that rare creation, a lyric page-turner.
Bruce Allen USA Today The writing is charged with sardonic wit
-- alive, funny, a little threatening; packed with brilliantly original images...and, now and then, a sentence that simply takes your breath away.
Roz Spafford San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle Annie Proulx's stunning, big-hearted The Shipping News thaws the frozen lives of its characters and warms readers.
Senses of Cinema, October 7, 2011
...a row fall over, like Don Quixote [where] we were well into pre-production (3). Then there was The Shipping News (4). They were a bit soul-destroying for all of us, because there’s a point where you emotionally commit [to a project]. You ...
The Australian, September 9, 2011
..." he says. He's gone that close on two other films, Don Quixote and the adaptation of Annie Proulx's The Shipping News, which Lasse Hallstrom later directed with Judi Dench, Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett and Kevin Spacey. And there are ...
Stuff.co.nz, March 20, 2011
...GOOD BOOK: Top-selling author Annie Proulx. Books Top-selling author Annie Proulx has revealed a future work could be partly set in New Zealand and she is actively researching while in the country on a book ...
Guardian.co.uk, March 11, 2011
...Kathryn Hughes listens to Annie Proulx's tale of house-building woe Such is the charged magic of Annie Proulx's prose that you might think there is no subject it cannot render luminous. But try ...
New Zealand Herald, March 11, 2011
...American writer Annie Proulx's The Shipping News won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1994. Photo / Gus Powell In March 2005, Annie Proulx writes in Bird Cloud: A Memoir, she is ...
Daily Express, February 26, 2011
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Domain.com.au, February 16, 2011
...Proulx's house in Wyoming. Annie Proulx’s memoir about building her dream house examines the obsessions of her taut fiction and rugged characters. Annie Proulx writes some of the most distinctive prose in contemporary fiction ...
Lake Wylie Pilot, August 5, 2009
...and many others.Live long and prosper.5. Your ideal brain food?Any novels or short stories by E. Annie Proulx. Before I was ever published, I read her novel 'The Shipping News.' Her weird use of vocabulary and grammar really loosened ...
Guardian Unlimited, March 5, 2009
...young hippy mother finding herself in Morocco? Matthew Freud Esther Freud Emma Freud Bella Freud 7. In E Annie Proulx's The Shipping News, where does Brooklyn-born Quoyle relocate after the death of his wife? Newfoundland Maine Wyoming Nova ...
Guardian Unlimited, January 20, 2009
...manner. The novel, which is wholly episodic in structure, has a fine freshness to its comedy. John Sutherland Annie Proulx: The Shipping News (1993) Proulx once said she slept with the Dictionary of Newfoundland English for the two years it ...
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