The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

Paperback. Acceptable.

Fourth Estate, London, 1993. Medium Trade Paperback. Very Good. Medium Trade Paperback. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Fourth Estate, London, 1993. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Minor creasing to covers. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: 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. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die; Literature & Literary. ISBN: 1841157694. ISBN/EAN: 9781841157696. Inventory No: 10080356.. 9781841157696

Fourth Estate. Very Good. 197mm / 130mm. Paperback. 2002. 337 pages.<br>A darkly comic portrait of human life and possibili ty. Quoyle is a hopeless hack journalist working in New York. Whe n his two-timing wife dies in a road accident, he retreats to his ancestral home on the coast of Newfoundland where he must confro nt the unpredictable forces of nature and society. .