The Shipping News

By Annie Proulx

Categories: Literature & Fiction

The Shipping News is a 1993 novel by Annie Proulx that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. It was adapted into a 2001 film starring Kevin Spacey. Quoyle, a clumsy and unhappy newspaperman from New York, loses his unfaithful wife in a car crash and moves with his two daughters and his aunt to the family's ancestral home in Newfoundland. Writing the shipping news for a local paper, he slowly builds a new life in the harsh landscape.

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