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The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

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The Shipping News (1993) is a novel by Annie Proulx . This literary-work article needs cleanup. Please review , especially the standard format of literary-work articles , to determine how to edit this article to conform to a higher standard of article...


Author Biography

Name: E. Annie Proulx
Birth Date: August 22, 1935
Place of Birth: Norwich, Connecticut, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: writer

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Biography of E. Annie Proulx
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E. Annie Proulx (born 1935) won the 1993 PEN/Faulkner Award for her novel Postcards and a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for her next novel, The Shipping News. While she was certainly not an overnight sensation, having written stories from the age of ten and pub...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Shipping News Information
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The Shipping News is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by E. Annie Proulx which was published in 1993. It was adapted into a film of the same name, released in...


News and Journals
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Travel Agent
Shipping News
07/20/1998: 1,206 words, approx. 4 pages
The Missouri - or 'Mighty Mo,' as it is nicknamed - the site of Japan's surrender to the Allies on Sept. 2, 1945, continues to attract attention and stir emotions 53 years after the conclusion of World War II. Indeed, although the battleship...
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The Independent - London
The shipping news
11/21/2007: 1,212 words, approx. 4 pages
Can old cargo containers really be turned into cheap designer homes? Oliver Bennett speaks to one resident to find out how it all stacks up Ian Felton, 38, is an artist. For the last two years, he has lived in east London, in...
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AP News
Crews still working on Japanese whaler
2/20/2007: 531 words, approx. 2 pages
Repair crews failed Tuesday to restart the engine of a crippled Japanese whaler but were not yet planning to tow the ship away from the pristine Antarctic coastline, an official said.Steve Corbett, whose organization Maritime New Zealand has been in daily contact with the stricken...
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The New York Observer
J. Lo Is Good! In Lasse\'d5s Western
9/11/2005: 2,183 words, approx. 7 pages
If Jennifer Lopez continues to surround herself with real actors of serious distinction like Jane Fonda, Robert Redford and Ralph Fiennes, then sooner or later something is bound to rub off. And so, for whatever it’s worth, she gives her strongest performance to date in...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Louise Flavin
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In the following essay, Flavin discusses the symbolic imagery of knots and fragmented language in The Shipping News, drawing attention to their use in the novel to develop thematic aspects of individual and interpersonal disconnection, entanglement, bonding, and integration.
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Critical Essay by Vicky Greenbaum
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In the following essay, Greenbaum discusses the role of teachers in establishing and perpetuating the literary canon and offers strategies for teaching The Shipping News, a novel that Greenbaum proposes as a notable contribution to recent fiction.
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Critical Review by Verlyn Klinkenborg
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In the following review of The Shipping News, Klinkenborg commends Proulx's descriptive talent, but concludes that the novel lacks emotional depth and resonance.
 


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