The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
Taste attributes: dramacomedyslowfresh & originallinearemotive & stirringempowerment/personal growthunlikely connections
Boxlist takeInventive and unhurried: a novel that is balanced on everything else. Best if you like patience over pace.
Pace: slow · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
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4.0 / 5
33 ratings
About This Book
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.
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- Author
- Annie Proulx
- Published
- 1993
- Pages
- 345
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- Open Library
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