The Shipping News
By: E. Annie Proulx.
Edition: Large Print edition
Series: Wheeler large print book series
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Hingham, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9781568950693
Copyright date: 1993
Subjects: Family -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction; Large type books; Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
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.
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