The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx · first published 1993
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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 mag
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on “Stephen King: Can a Novelist Be Too Productive? (2015)” ↗Interesting. Nice notes, thanks! I liked "Leven of malice" and found myself thinking of it again recently reading "the shipping news": -the resonances of small (and not so small) town newspaper publishing in the two. And Proulx writes of similarly broken people. "A mixture of frailties" is a great read for anyone who has uprooted…
on “I would like a job writing Haskell” ↗The Shipping news [1] (Pulitzer and National Book Award winner) featured a house being moved over ice and Oscar and Lucinda [2] (Booker Award winner) featured a glass church being moved on water, as did their respective…
on “Moving House” ↗…conclusion any more than an unfinished work of music does: you can imagine how the story goes on for yourself. Vikram Seth does the same thing with the ending of "a suitable boy" as does Anne Proulx in "the shipping news" Writing of one's own mortality in these situations obviously invites the final word, but it actually doesn't have to be cast as such. For this author the situation is terrible, but the writing doesn't…
on “Perhaps my last post – we'll see (2016)” ↗…symbolism and symbolic discourse as "classical" works like Dickens. AP English classes were permitted to use more modern novels, and most did (the most recent novel we read as part of the course was the Shipping News.)
on “How “The Great Gatsby” took over high school” ↗