The shipping news / Annie Proulx
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TextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster, c1993Edition: First EditionDescription: 337 pages ; 22 cmISBN: 0671510053Subject(s): DOMESTIC -- FICTION | NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADORLOC classification: .P76 1993Summary: Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips,” is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters to return with her to the starkly beautiful coastal landscape of their ancestral home in Newfoundland. Here, on desolate Quoyle’s Point, in a house empty except for a few mementos of the family’s unsavory past, the battered members of three generations try to cobble up new lives.
Books - Fiction
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LRC - Annex | National University - Manila | Fiction | Fiction | FIC .P76 1993 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | c.1 | Available | NULIB000016146 |
Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips,” is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters to return with her to the starkly beautiful coastal landscape of their ancestral home in Newfoundland. Here, on desolate Quoyle’s Point, in a house empty except for a few mementos of the family’s unsavory past, the battered members of three generations try to cobble up new lives.
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