THE SHIPPING NEWS
by Proulx, E. Annie
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 068419337X
- ISBN 13
- 9780684193373
- Seller
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Pomona, New York, United States
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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
- Rare Book Cellar (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 73577
- Title
- THE SHIPPING NEWS
- Author
- Proulx, E. Annie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition; Second Printing
- ISBN 10
- 068419337X
- ISBN 13
- 9780684193373
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- 068419337x
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