Shipping News
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, The Shipping News is a celebration of Annie Proulx's genius for storytelling and her vigorous contribution to the art of the novel. 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 deserts. 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 e…
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- ISBN: 978-0-684-85791-6
- EAN: 9780684857916
- Produktnummer: 9471837
- Verlag: Simon & Schuster N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Gattung: A Novel
- Masse: H24.3 cm x B16.4 cm x D3.5 cm 633 g
- Gewicht: 633
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Annie Proulx is the author of eight books, including the novel The Shipping News and the story collection Close Range. Her many honors include a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and a PEN/Faulkner award. Her story “Brokeback Mountain,” which originally appeared in The New Yorker, was made into an Academy Award-winning film. Her most recent novel is Barkskins. She lives in Seattle.
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