Proulx, Annie 1935- creator author. text Domestic fiction enk 2019 4th Estate Matchbook Classics edition 1 monographic eng

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x, 355 pages : 20 cm uoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. While weathering the storm that is his marriage of one-way love to his no-good wife Petal, disaster strikes and Petal is killed in a spectacular road accident. Set adrift on an aimless quest, Quoyle heads for the land of his forefathers to the remote corners of far-flung Newfoundland. With his delinquent daughters Bunny and Sunshine in tow, Quoyle takes up the post of shipping news reporter, and finds himself part of an unfolding, exhilarating Atlantic drama. The Shipping News is an irresistible comedy of human life and possibility. adult ANNIE PROULX Originally published: 1993. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1994. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, 1993. Families Newfoundland and Labrador Fiction Journalists Newfoundland and Labrador Fiction Newfoundland and Labrador Fiction 813.54 9780008329716 PPAK 191107 20191112115618.0 eng