Shipping News

English

ISBN: 0671510053

EAN: 9780671510053

Category: Fiction / General

Publisher: Scribner

Release Date: 06/30/1994

Synopsis: When Quoyles two-timing wife meets her just desserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters and family members all play a part in Quoyles struggle to reclaim his life. As Quoyle confronts his private demons -- and the unpredictable forces of nature and society -- he begins to see the possibility of love without pain or misery.A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family,The Shipping Newsshows why Annie Proulx is recognized as one of the most gifted and original writers in America today.

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Shipping News

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.88 inches

Width: 5.5 inches

Length: 8.5 inches

Weight: 11.71 oz

Pages: 352