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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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The Shipping News

The Shipping News

Proulx, Annie

Paperback

Classic FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.99

ISBN10: 0671510053
ISBN13: 9780671510053
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: Jun 1 1994
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Awards: Book Sense Book of the Year Award
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family, and a rare creation, a lyric page-turner (Chicago Tribune).At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman is wrenched violently out of his world when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. 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. The Shipping News 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 (USA TODAY).

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