The Shipping News
Novel
By: E. Annie Proulx
Date: 1993
Source: Proulx, E. Annie. The Shipping News. New York: Scribner Classics, 1993, 1–3.
About the Author: Edna Annie Proulx (1935–) was born in Norwich, Connecticut. She writes both fiction and non-fiction. Proulx attended Colby College in Maine and the University of Vermont, earning a B.A. in 1969. She also received an M.A. from Sir George Williams University in Montreal. Proulx began her career as a journalist and writing "how-to" books. Her first novel, Postcards, won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1993. She also won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1994 for The Shipping News.
Introduction
Through the development of quirky and eccentric characters, The Shipping News explores the challenge of recovery from haunting pasts. The novel's main character is a middle-aged man, Quoyle (pronounced "coil")....
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