The Shipping News

Sue says about The Shipping News: "Another of my favourite authors from the nineties. Set in Newfoundland with a wonderful protagonist, Quoyle, who moves back to his family home after the death of his wife. A story of redemption but almost Hardyesque through its quirky cast of characters!"

What we have to get over, somehow we do. Even the worst things.

Quoyle has endured a life of disappointment. A failed journalist and now a failed husband, he finds himself trapped in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful woman who despises him.

When his wife is killed in a car accident, Quoyle makes the rash decision to retreat with his two daughters to their dilapidated, ancestral home on the remote island of Newfoundland. As three generations of his family cobble together new lives there amongst the unpredictable forces of nature and small town life, Quoyle confronts his private demons and is forced to chart a new course.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Shipping News is a rousing reminder of the power of second chances and the importance of finding your place in the world.

Author: Proulx, Annie

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 1 August 1994 by HarperCollins Publishers (4th Estate) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 368 pages
196 x 130 x 25 | 262g