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The Shipping News

by Annie Proulx · 1993

Literary Fiction · ranked #184 in category

Quoyle, a failed journalist in upstate New York, takes his two daughters to the remote Newfoundland coast where his family originated after his wife's death. Working for the local newspaper covering the shipping news, he slowly assembles a life from its wreckage. Proulx's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is about renewal in a harsh landscape and the community that makes it possible.

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The verdict

Category
Literary Fiction
First published
1993 · 1990s
Author
Annie Proulx
Standing
Essential Read

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