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État
Bon: Un livre qui a été lu, mais qui est en bon état. La couverture présente des dommages infimes, ...
EAN
9780671510053
ISBN
9780671510053
Book Title
Shipping News
Item Length
8.4in
Publisher
Scribner
Publication Year
1994
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.9in
Author
Annie Proulx
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Classics, Family Life, Literary, Historical
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz
Number of Pages
368 Pages

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx's The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family. Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a "head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips," is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters to return with her to the starkly beautiful coastal landscape of their ancestral home in Newfoundland. Here, on desolate Quoyle's Point, in a house empty except for a few mementos of the family's unsavory past, the battered members of three generations try to cobble up new lives. Newfoundland is a country of coast and cove where the mercury rarely rises above seventy degrees, the local culinary delicacy is cod cheeks, and it's easier to travel by boat and snowmobile than on anything with wheels. In this harsh place of cruel storms, a collapsing fishery, and chronic unemployment, the aunt sets up as a yacht upholsterer in nearby Killick-Claw, and Quoyle finds a job reporting the shipping news for the local weekly, the Gammy Bird (a paper that specializes in sexual-abuse stories and grisly photos of car accidents). As the long winter closes its jaws of ice, each of the Quoyles confronts private demons, reels from catastrophe to minor triumph--in the company of the obsequious Mavis Bangs; Diddy Shovel the strongman; drowned Herald Prowse; cane-twirling Beety; Nutbeem, who steals foreign news from the radio; a demented cousin the aunt refuses to recognize; the much-zippered Alvin Yark; silent Wavey; and old Billy Pretty, with his bag of secrets. By the time of the spring storms Quoyle has learned how to gut cod, to escape from a pickle jar, and to tie a true lover's knot.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
0671510053
ISBN-13
9780671510053
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12551

Product Key Features

Book Title
Shipping News
Author
Annie Proulx
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Classics, Family Life, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
1994
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
368 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ps3566.R697s4 1994b
Reviews
Bruce AllenUSA TodayThe writing is charged with sardonic wit -- alive, funny, a little threatening; packed with brilliantly original images...and, now and then, a sentence that simply takes your breath away., Bruce Allen USA Today The writing is charged with sardonic wit -- alive, funny, a little threatening; packed with brilliantly original images...and, now and then, a sentence that simply takes your breath away., Roz SpaffordSan Francisco Examiner & ChronicleAnnie Proulx's stunning, big-heartedThe Shipping Newsthaws the frozen lives of its characters and warms readers., Roz Spafford San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle Annie Proulx's stunning, big-hearted The Shipping News thaws the frozen lives of its characters and warms readers.
Copyright Date
1993
Lccn
94-016863
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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  • par gypsybluz
    janv. 20, 2007

    Much better than the film and I thought that was good!

    As with most books made into film, the book is by far better but in this instance I saw the film first and read the book recently as a selection from our book club. What I wasn't prepared for was to love the book so much I can barely remember any details of the film...and at the time I loved it too. There's no question as to why the author won such a prestigious award for this book. Her use of the English language to describe the experiences in this book is brilliant. I found myself completely wrapped up in the characters...the ones I liked and the ones I disliked so much so that I began thinking about them when I wasn't reading the book. Wondering what they were planning to do, I even found myself wanting to visit Newfoundland despite the bleak picture painted in the novel. I really ...

  • par sblonstein
    févr. 06, 2011

    The Shipping News

    This is a fascinating story about an emotionally beaten down man who finds himself when he goes back to his family's birthplace of New Foundland. I saw the movie first (which by the way is excellent & visually stunning). The movie varies somewhat from the book. The book centers around Quoyle and his two daughters, as well as his Aunt and a host of other colorful characters. The descriptions of New Foundland and it's people make you want to go over there and meet some of these strong and wonderful characters. Proulx has a way of really making all of her characters stand out in their own unique ways. The part that I found difficult to follow sometimes was her writing style. It was very choppy and hard to understand. It definitely took more than one read to figure out what was going on in the ...

  • par MW4DEHyZQa2@Deleted
    juil. 09, 2009

    The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

    I have read a lot better books. I thought the story moved slowly and it was difficult to "see" the topography. Perhaps it is because I have never been to that part of the world. I was reading this for my book club discussion or I probably wouldn't have finished it. If a book doesn't "grab" be within 50 pages, I usually don't bother to read on. There are too many good books I feel I want to get through. I wouldn't really recommend this to an avid reader.

  • par barbaus_zmzaj
    févr. 02, 2021

    boring

    If the characters were more likeable. They are not interesting and their fate is of little interest. However, the writing style was different and kept me reading a few pages more than I might have.

    Achat vérifié : OuiÉtat : OccasionVendu par : second.sale

  • par frankiewayne61
    août 29, 2018

    A good read requiring some patience

    This was not the easiest book to get through but you finally are able to get a window into the characters' souls as the book progresses. This book has excellent insight on human behavior.

    Achat vérifié : OuiÉtat : OccasionVendu par : oneplanetbooks