num_pages: 337
description: 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 Annie Proulx is recognized as one of the most gifted and original writers in America today.--back coverCover illustration by David Blackwood
language: English
title: The Shipping News
titlecomplete: The Shipping News
characters: Dennis Buggit, Tert Card, Quoyle, Beety Buggit, Bunny, Petal Bear, Sunshine, Jack Buggit, Billy Pretty, B. Beaufield Nutbeem, Wavey Prowse, Agnis Hamm
genres: Canada, American, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Literature, Classics, Adult, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 143710
places: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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: Scribner / Simon & Schuster