TY - BOOK AU - Proulx,Annie TI - THE SHIPPING NEWS T2 - 4th Estate Matchbook Classics SN - 9780008329716 U1 - 813.54 23 PY - 2019/// CY - London : PB - 4th Estate, KW - Families KW - Newfoundland and Labrador KW - Fiction KW - Journalists KW - Domestic fiction N1 - Originally published: 1993 N2 - 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 ER -