num_pages: 444
description: Hapless, lovable Quoyle takes his two daughters and aunt back to the ancestral home in Newfoundland, following the death of his nasty parents and even nastier wife. He goes to work for the local paper, the aptly named Gammy Bird, writing up shipping news and car crashes ("We run a front-page photo of a car wreck every week, whether we have a wreck or not" is managing editor Tert Card's golden rule.) Despite his job and a string of equally hilarious and demoralizing incidents, however, Quoyle finds the inner resources to master (or at least survive) his fate.(front flap)
language: English
title: The Shipping News
titlecomplete: The Shipping News
characters: Bunny, Petal Bear, Agnis Hamm, Dennis Buggit, Billy Pretty, Beety Buggit, Tert Card, B. Beaufield Nutbeem, Wavey Prowse, Jack Buggit, Sunshine, Quoyle
genres: Fiction, American, Canada, Literature, Adult, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 143752
places: Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Irish Times International Fiction Prize, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Wheeler Pub Inc