num_pages: 355
description: Annie Proulx’s highly acclaimed, international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. When his no-good wife is killed in a spectacular road accident, Quoyle heads for the land of his forefathers – the remotest corner of far-flung Newfoundland.With ‘the aunt’ and his delinquent daughters – Bunny and Sunshine – in tow, Quoyle finds himself part of an unfolding, exhilarating Atlantic drama. ‘The Shipping News’ is an irresistible comedy of human life and possibility.
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: 143723
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: Fourth Estate