The Shipping News
Ratings77
Average rating3.8
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Ratings77
Average rating3.8
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. As three generations of his family cobble up new lives, Quoyle confronts his private demons--and the unpredictable forces of nature and society--and begins to see the possibility of love without pain or misery.
A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary American family, The Shipping News shows why E. Annie Proulx is recognized as one of the most gifted and original writers in America today.
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Basically this - really picks up towards the end https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11938852
Battled hard against writing style. Finished. Thought story good despite everything.
I really enjoyed the distinctive voice of this book. Quoyle (via Proulx) conveys so much with such terse little sentences. With a different narrator this might have been too sweet, but as it was, it was a quietly effective story about small towns and families and love and all that without being annoying.
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