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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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Helpful Score: 2


Winner of the Pulitzer prize - this book was turned into a movie. At 36, Quoyle, a third rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workday life when his wife dies. He takes his daughters and relocates to his ancestral home on the Newfoundland coast. This is a really great story - I enjoyed the book more than the movie.