The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx is a novel about Quoyle – a 36-year-old man who is devoted to his cheating wife Petal and their two daughters. Petal is killed in a car accident and Quoyle moves his family up to Newfoundland where he takes a job at a newspaper covering what ships are in port. Quoyle is soon promoted to editor and meets a woman named Wavey. He is eventually able to confront his past and open himself up to love again. He marries Wavey and settles into his new life that brings him much joy and contentment.
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 sensatio...
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E. Annie Proulx
