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Surprising transformations take place when a newspaperman's elderly aunt and two daughters decide to move back to their family home on the coast of Newfoundland.
 
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Annie Proulx's Shipping News: An uplifting book about food , misery and insurance

Date of Review:  Oct 29, 2002
The Bottom Line: I think you should read it; its characters and situations are so true to life, the moving nature of the transformations slip under your radar
Review: Many years ago, a co-worker/friend of mine (Jeff) highly recommended The Shipping News to me, saying "You'll love it! It's about this depressed guy who winds up in Newfoundland writing about boats. The humour is just like yours, deadpan and dry...
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Recommended to buy: Yes

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In a quiet way, uplifting and gently...
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Suffers from typical writer obsessions...
 

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Date of Review:  Oct 4, 2000
Review: ?Hive spangled, gut roaring with gas and cramp, he survived childhood.?. P.1

Thirty-six year old Quoyle, a born loser, relocates from the States with his two young daughters to their ancestral home in Newfoundland -- his unfaithful and...
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lively original writing; great...
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This book won a what?

Date of Review:  Nov 21, 2004
The Bottom Line: Born loser finds happiness in the hard but simple life. In sentence fragments. Writing attempts unique style by breaking all rules. The rules were there for a reason.
Review: I heard this book won a Pulitzer Prize. Moreover, it won a National Book Award and several other prizes, My son-in-law loved it; he gave it to my wife to read. She loved it. My son-in-law is an English Professor. My wife is..well, ...my wife. How...
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Authors Annie Proulx
Fiction Genre Family & Relationships
Fiction Subgenre Unknown

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  Format: Hardcover - Prebinding
Publisher: Bt Bound (November 01, 2001)
Measurements: 8.5"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 0.75"(d), 1 lbs.
ISBN: 9780613377164

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  Here is an account of a few years in the life of Quoyle, born in Brooklyn, and raised in a shuffle of dreary upstate towns.
 
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