Book :: The Shipping News
| By: | Annie Proulx |
| Pages: | 352 |
| Published: | 1993 |
| Genre(s): | Canada |
| Literary Fiction | |
| Adult Fiction | |
| Award(s): | National Book Award (1993) |
| Pulitzer Prize (1994) | |
| Rating: | (8) |
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, The Shipping News is a celebration of Annie Proulx's genius for storytelling and her vigorous contribution to the art of the novel. 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...
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red13x
I found it a little hard to relate to some of the main characters at times, but overall I really enjoyed the book.
Jan 1st, 2019
forline
an all time favorite!!! Read this when my first bookclub started---and that is 20 years strong!
Jan 5th, 2018
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