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Annie Proulx’s highly acclaimed, international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

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The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

Annie Proulx’s highly acclaimed, international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. When his no-good wife is killed in a spectacular road accident, Quoyle heads for the land of his forefathers – the remotest corner of far-flung Newfoundland. With ‘the aunt’ and his delinquent daughters – Bunny and Sunshine – in tow, Quoyle finds himself part of an unfolding, exhilarating Atlantic drama. ‘The Shipping News’ is an irresistible comedy of human life and possibility.

‘A very impressive achievementSo funny, so full of delights.’ Guardian

‘As stark and ruggedly beautiful as the storm-battered coast of Newfoundland itself.’ Sunday Telegraph

‘Ambitious and accomplished…The characterisation is rich, the dialogue both original and convincing.’ Alan Massie, Scotsman

‘A stunning novel.’ Observer

‘To read “The Shipping News” is to yearn to be sitting in The Flying Squid Lunchstop, eating seal fin curry, watching the icebergs clink together in the bay.’ The Times

Annie Proulx published her first novel ‘Postcards’ in 1991 at the age of 56. ‘The Shipping News’ won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Award and the Irish Times International Prize. Her third novel, ‘Accordion Crimes’, was published in 1996. She is also the author of three short-story collections, ‘Heart Songs’ (1994), ‘Close Range’ (1999) and ‘Bad Dirt’ (2004). ‘Brokeback Mountain’ was made into an Oscar-winning film in 2005. ‘Fine Just the Way It Is’, her third collection of Wyoming short stories, was published in 2008.

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ISBN 13 9781857022421
ISBN 10 1857022424
Title The Shipping News
Author Annie Proulx
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Year published 1994-08-01
Number of pages 368
Prizes Winner of Pulitzer Prize Fiction Category 1994, Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1994, Winner of Irish Times Literary Prize: International Fiction Category 1994, Winner of United States National Book Awards: Fiction 1993
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