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Book Review of The Shipping News

The Shipping News
The Shipping News
Author: Annie Proulx
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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At Thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his towo-timing wife meets her just deserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a
rich cast of loca characters all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to
reclaim his life. Three generations of his family cobble up new lives.Quoyle confronts his private demons and the unpredictable forces of nature and society and begins to see the possibility of love
without pain and or misery.