The Shipping News
by Proulx, E. Annie
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0671510053
- ISBN 13
- 9780671510053
- Seller
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OCEANSIDE, California, United States
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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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Details
- Bookseller
- J. E. MILES, A BOOKSELLER (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 118653
- Title
- The Shipping News
- Author
- Proulx, E. Annie
- Format/Binding
- Soft Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- First Touchstone Edition Water Damage
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0671510053
- ISBN 13
- 9780671510053
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1994
- LCCN
- 94016863
- Dewey
- 813/.54
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- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....