![]() ![]() 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. ![]() 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. 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. ![]() Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx's The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family. ![]()
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