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The Shipping News : A Novel by E.ANNIE PROULX, E. Annie Proulx is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In The Shipping News E. Annie Proulx departs from the darkly fated heroes of Heart Songs and Postcards to explore the cracked-up contemporary American family. Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a "head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair ... features as bunched as kissed fingertips," is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just deserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters to return with her to the starkly beautiful coastal landscape of their ancestral home in Newfoundland. Here, on desolate Quoyle's Point, in a house empty except for a few mementos of the family's unsavory past, the battered members of three generations try to cobble up new lives. Newfoundland is a country of coast and cove where the mercury rarely rises above 70 degrees, the local culinary delicacy is cod cheeks, and it's easier to travel by boat and snowmobile than on anything with wheels. In this harsh place of cruel storms, a collapsing fishery, and chronic unemployment, the aunt sets up as a yacht upholsterer in nearby Killick-Claw, and Quoyle finds a job reporting the shipping news for the local weekly, the Gammy Bird

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Author

E.ANNIE PROULX, E. Annie Proulx

Publisher

SCRIBNER PAPERBACK FICTION

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780743225403

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.83 / 5 (263 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14