The Shipping News (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Annie Proulx
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Plot: Magical Realism
- Time of Work: The 1980’s and the 1990’s
- Setting: Newfoundland, Canada
- Principal Characters: Quoyle, Agnis Hamm, Wavey Prowse
- Genres: Long fiction, Magical Realism
- Subjects: Canada or Canadians, Small-town life, Adventure, Peace, Resurrection
- Locales: Newfoundland, Canada
The Novel
The Shipping News consists of thirty-nine chapters, the majority of which begin with epigrams and illustrations taken from Clifford W. Ashley’s 1944 how-to book The Ashley Book of Knots. The Shipping News concerns the adventures of Quoyle, a thirty-six-year-old “third-rate newspaperman” from Mockingburg, New York, whose life is a steady stream of failures until he and his small family pick up stakes and move to their ancestral home in Newfoundland. The Ashley Book of Knots helps to tie together their improbable, comic—and sometimes...
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