The Shipping News by Annie Proulx (9781857022421)

Description - 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.

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Book Details

ISBN: 9781857022421
ISBN-10: 1857022424

Classification:
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Format: Paperback / softback
(198mm x 129mm x 24mm)
Pages: 368
Imprint: Fourth Estate Ltd
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publish Date: 1-Jun-1994
Country of Publication: United Kingdom

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Author Biography - Annie Proulx

E. Annie Proulx is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Shipping News" and the acclaimed 'Accordion Crimes'. She was born in 1935 in Connecticut USA, where her family have lived since 1635, but has spent most of her life in Vermont. She has been a newspaper editor, medical writer, historian and author. Her first book was a collection of short stories, 'Heart Songs and Other Stories'. Her first novel, 'Postcards', was published when she was in her 50s.