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THE SHIPPING NEWS / ANNIE PROULX

By: Series: 4th Estate matchbook classicsPublisher: London : 4th Estate, 2019Copyright date: ©1993Edition: 4th Estate Matchbook Classics edition 1Description: x, 355 pages : 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780008329716
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 23 813.54
Awards:
  • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1994.
  • Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, 1993.
Summary: uoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. While weathering the storm that is his marriage of one-way love to his no-good wife Petal, disaster strikes and Petal is killed in a spectacular road accident. Set adrift on an aimless quest, Quoyle heads for the land of his forefathers to the remote corners of far-flung Newfoundland. With his delinquent daughters Bunny and Sunshine in tow, Quoyle takes up the post of shipping news reporter, and finds himself part of an unfolding, exhilarating Atlantic drama. The Shipping News is an irresistible comedy of human life and possibility.
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Book Perpustakaan Alor Setar RFIDTI Pinjaman Dewasa 813.54 PRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available A01619874
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Originally published: 1993.

uoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. While weathering the storm that is his marriage of one-way love to his no-good wife Petal, disaster strikes and Petal is killed in a spectacular road accident. Set adrift on an aimless quest, Quoyle heads for the land of his forefathers to the remote corners of far-flung Newfoundland. With his delinquent daughters Bunny and Sunshine in tow, Quoyle takes up the post of shipping news reporter, and finds himself part of an unfolding, exhilarating Atlantic drama. The Shipping News is an irresistible comedy of human life and possibility.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1994.

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, 1993.

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