Product Details
ISBN: 9780671510053
Category: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 1995-03-01
Publisher: Pocket Books
Illustrations: illustrations
Country of origin: United States
Pages: 352
Dimensions (mm): 216x140x22mm
Weight: 311g
The Shipping News
E. Annie Proulx focuses on a Newfoundland fishing town in a tale about a third-rate newspaperman and the women in his life-- his elderly aunt and two young daughters-- who decide to resettle in their ancestral seaside home. The transformation each of the character undergoes following move is profound. A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary American family, The Shipping News enlightens readers to the powers of E. Annie Proulx's storytelling genius and her expert evocation of time and place. She is truly one of the most gifted and original writers in America today.