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The Shipping News

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Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, 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

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The Shipping News, Annie Proulx

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1999
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Language
English
Publisher
Scribner
Released
1999
Format
Hardcover
Pages
337
ISBN10
068485791X
ISBN13
9780684857916
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First published
1993
Original title
The Shipping News
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Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, 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