The Shipping News: A Novel
by E. Annie Proulx
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 0671510053
- ISBN 13
- 9780671510053
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About This Item
PROULX, E. Annie: The Shipping News : A Novel. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1994. Originally published in 1993. Paperback, 337 pp. Subject: Novel / Fiction & Literature. Condition: Very Good Minus. Some bumps to the book corners. A sticker pull near the upper right hand corner. All pages unmarked. "A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary American family...shows why E. Annie Proulx is recognized as one of the most gifted and original writers in America today." Fine contemporary fiction from the national best-selling author. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. ISBN: 0671510053
Synopsis
Edna Annie Proulx is an American journalist and author. Her second novel, The Shipping News , won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for fiction in 1994. The novel centers on Quoyle, a third-rate hack journalist who lives and works in upstate New York. His parents’ commit suicide and his adulterous, abusive wife sells their daughters to a black market adoption agency. When his wife dies in a car accident, his aunt persuades him to retreat to their ancestral home in Newfoundland for a new beginning. There, Quoyle grows in fortitude and emotional strength while learning disturbing secrets about his family’s past. Proulx’s writing is original and startling, a darkly humorous portrait of the unpredictability of human nature.
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- Bookseller
- The Brooklyn Bookman (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 671780278
- Title
- The Shipping News
- Author
- E. Annie Proulx
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0671510053
- ISBN 13
- 9780671510053
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- NY
- This edition first published
- 1994
- LCCN
- 94016863
- Dewey
- 813/.54
- Keywords
- Novel / Fiction & Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- THE BROOKLYN BOOKMAN – USED, OUT OF PRINT, RARE & COLLECTIBLE BOOKS CATALOG; Modern World Literature;
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