The Shipping News

Hardcover, 337 pages

English language

Published March 1993 by Charles Scribner's Sons.

ISBN:
978-0-684-19337-3
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OCLC Number:
26502801

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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 deserts. 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. Here, on desolate Quoyle's Point, in a house empty except for a few momentoes of the family's unsavory past, the battered members of three generations try to cobble up new lives.

Newfoundland is a country of coast and cove where the mercury rarely rises above 70 degrees, the local culinary delicacy is cod cheeks, and it's easier to travel by boat and snowmobile than on anything with wheels. In this harsh place of cruel storms, a collapsing fishery, and chronic unemployment, the aunt sets up …

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