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The Shipping News

(1993)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book
A darkly comic portrait of human life and possibility. Quoyle is a hopeless hack journalist working in New York. When his two-timing wife dies in a road accident, he retreats to his ancestral home on the coast of Newfoundland where he must confront the unpredictable forces of nature and society.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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