The Shipping News [electronic resource]
Proulx, Annie2012
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Annie Proulx's highly acclaimed, international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. When his no-good wife is killed in a spectacular road accident, Quoyle heads for the land of his forefathers – the remotest corner of far-flung Newfoundland. With 'the aunt' and his delinquent daughters – Bunny and Sunshine – in tow, Quoyle finds himself part of an unfolding, exhilarating Atlantic drama. 'The Shipping News' is an irresistible comedy of human life and possibility.
Main title:
The Shipping News [electronic resource] / Annie Proulx
Author:
Proulx, Annie, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2012
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Annie Proulx is the author of nine books, including the novel The Shipping News, Barkskins and the story collection Close Range. Her many honors include a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and a PEN/Faulkner award. Her story 'Brokeback Mountain,' which originally appeared in The New Yorker, was made into an Academy Award-winning film. She lives in New Hampshire.
ISBN:
9780007386819
Language:
English
BRN:
2793069
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