The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
Total Points
#165
- Pages
- 352
- Genres
- Literary Fiction Adult Fiction Canada
- Award(s)
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National Book Award (1993)
Pulitzer Prize (1994)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, The Shipping News is a celebration of Annie Proulx's genius for storytelling and her vigorous contribution to the art of the novel. Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a "head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips," is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing...
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Jan 1st, 2019
I found it a little hard to relate to some of the main characters at times, but overall I really enjoyed the book.
Jan 5th, 2018
an all time favorite!!! Read this when my first bookclub started---and that is 20 years strong!
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