The Shipping News

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family, and "a rare creation, a lyric page-turner" (Chicago Tribune).

At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman is wrenched violently out of his world when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. 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.

The Shipping News "is charged with sardonic wit--alive, funny, a little threatening: packed with brilliantly original images...and now and then, a sentence that simply takes your breath away" (USA TODAY).

Author: Annie Proulx
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 06/01/1994
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780671510053

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.8
Point Value: 16
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 10845 / Shipping News


Award: 1995 Book Sense Book of the Year Award Honor Book - Adult