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Fleeing the American rat race with two disturbed daughters and an eccentric aunt, confirmed loser Quoyle heads for his ancestors' home in far-flung Newfoundland's remotest corner. In this place of cruel storms, a dying fishery and chronic unemployment, the battered members of three generations try to cobble together new lives. The aunt sets up as a yacht upholsterer, Quoyle finds a job reporting the shipping news for the Gammy Bird (the local weekly paper specialising in sexual-abuse stories and grisly photos of car accidents). Helping Quoyle to confront life's major and minor catastrophes and triumphs are the obsequious Mavis Bangs; cane-twirling Beety; Nutbeem, who steals foreign news from the radio; a demented cousin the aunt refuses to recognise; the much-zippered Alvin Yark; and old Billy Pretty, with his of secrets.
Beginning with a lonely man in a bleak landscape, The Shipping News transforms both as each, unforgettably, transforms the other. As Quoyle's story becomes an irresistible, inspiring comedy of human life and possibility, an exhilarating Atlantic drama unfolds all around in Newfoundland's blanketing fog and whirl- ing snow, in sunlight, spray and scudding clouds.
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Domestic fiction, Family, Fiction, American literature, Families, National Book Award Winner, Women authors, award:national_book_award=1993, award:national_book_award=fiction, United States, English fiction, Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction., Livres en gros caractères, Large type books, Counselors, Supervision of, Psychotherapy, Education, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, Social Services & Welfare, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Human Services, Supervision, Beratung, Fiction, family life, Newfoundland and labrador, fiction, Fiction, family life, general, Journalists, fictionPeople
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The Shipping News
2008, Harper Perennial
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Noeuds et dénouement
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1994, Simon & Schuster
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1994, Simon & Schuster
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1993, Fourth Estate
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At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just deserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As three generations of his family cobble up new lives, Quoyle confronts his private demons--and the unpredictable forces of nature and society--and begins to see the possibility of love without pain or misery.
A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary American family, The Shipping News shows why E. Annie Proulx is recognized as one of the most gifted and original writers in America today.
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