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Actions Displays	Shipping News Remove from selection Add to selection TitleThe Shipping News Author Edna Ann Proulx (author)‎ Place of publicationLondon PublisherFourth Estate Year of publication1994 Paginationxii, 337 p. IllustrationsIllus., black and white drawings Dimensions12.9 x 19.8 cm Materialbook Class numberPS3566.R697 .P76 1994 ISBN1-85702-242-4 NotesThe International Guild of Knot Tyers Collection Quotes from Clifford W. Ashley on knots. Subjectfiction Geographical keywordNewfoundland and Labrador 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.

TitleThe Shipping News

Author

Place of publicationLondon

Year of publication1994

Paginationxii, 337 p.

IllustrationsIllus., black and white drawings

Dimensions12.9 x 19.8 cm

Materialbook

Class numberPS3566.R697 .P76 1994

ISBN1-85702-242-4

NotesThe International Guild of Knot Tyers Collection
Quotes from Clifford W. Ashley on knots.

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.