The Shipping News

Author: Annie Proulx

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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

Paperback | 368 pages
196 x 130 x 25mm | 262g

Annie Proulx’s highly acclaimed, international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. When his no-good wife is killed in a spectacular road accident, Quoyle heads for the land of his forefathers – the remotest corner of far-flung Newfoundland.

With ‘the aunt’ and his delinquent daughters – Bunny and Sunshine – in tow, Quoyle finds himself part of an unfolding, exhilarating Atlantic drama. ‘The Shipping News’ is an irresistible comedy of human life and possibility.