Literary Fiction· United States
The Shipping News
by E. Annie ProulxAggregate Editorial Score64/100
★Pulitzer Prize
Published 1994345 pagesEnglish
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The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx is a landmark work of literary fiction, first published in 1994. After his wife dies, Quoyle moves with his two daughters to his ancestral home in Newfoundland, finding community and a new life writing shipping news for the local paper. Proulx's Pulitzer and National Book Award–winning novel is a darkly comic portrait of a community living on the edge of the world. Themes of community, identity, grief run through the work. The book has received recognition from Pulitzer Prize 1994.
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