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Author: E. Annie Proulx
First Published: 1996
Type of Work: Novel
Time of Work: The 1890’s to the 1990’s
Setting: Sicily; many areas of the United States, including Iowa, Texas, Louisiana, Illinois, Montana, Minnesota, and Mississippi
Principal Characters: Silvano, Hans Beutle, Abelardo Relámpago Salazar, Félida Salazar, Dolor Gagnon, Buddy Malefoot, Octave, Joey Newcomer, Florry Newcomer, Fay McGettigan
Genres: Long fiction
Subjects: Family or family life, Immigration or emigration, Acculturation, Mexican Americans, Italy or Italians, Life and death, Musical instruments, Happiness
Locales: United States, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Illinois, Sicily, Italy, Iowa, Montana, Minnesota

The novels of E. Annie Proulx show life at its most heartbreaking. Her characters are frustrated, betrayed, and tormented; their hopes and their very survival are jeopardized by the forces of nature and by human malevolence. In Postcards (1992), Proulx shows how a family virtually destroys itself because the family members are incapable of forgetting old injuries; in The Shipping News (1993), she demonstrates how individuals are imperiled not only by human selfishness and irresponsibility but also by the unpredictable and unforgiving ocean on which these islanders must...

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