The Shipping News

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family. 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 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. Here, on desolate Quoyle’s Point, in a house empty except for a few mementos 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 seventy 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 as a yacht upholsterer in nearby Killick-Claw, and Quoyle finds a job reporting the shipping news for the local weekly, the Gammy Bird (a paper that specializes in sexual-abuse stories and grisly photos of car accidents). As the long winter closes its jaws of ice, each of the Quoyles confronts private demons, reels from catastrophe to minor triumph—in the company of the obsequious Mavis Bangs; Diddy Shovel the strongman; drowned Herald Prowse; cane-twirling Beety; Nutbeem, who steals foreign news from the radio; a demented cousin the aunt refuses to recognize; the much-zippered Alvin Yark; silent Wavey; and old Billy Pretty, with his bag of secrets. By the time of the spring storms Quoyle has learned how to gut cod, to escape from a pickle jar, and to tie a true lover’s knot.

Literature & Fiction

E. Annie PROULX

United States

Scribner

Heart Songs and Other Stories

Nine stories focus on the rural working class, their broken relationships, and their ties to the land

Charles Scribner`s Sons

An unsuccessful newspaperman, his aunt, and his two young daughters experience delicately evoked changes in a poignant novel set in a Newfoundland fishing town. By the author of Postcards.

A button accordion brought to New Orleans in 1890 by a Sicilian immigrant finds its way into the lives, dreams, fantasies, sorrows, and intimacies of men and women of other immigrant groups in South Dakota, Texas, Montana, Maine, and elsewhere. 350,000 first printing.

Accordion Crimes

From the bestselling author of The Shipping News comes Postcards, the tale of the Blood family, New England farmers who must confront the twentieth century -- and their own extinction. As the family slowly disintegrates, its members struggle valiantly against the powerful forces of loneliness and necessity, seeking a sense of home and place forever lost. Loyal Blood, eldest son, is forced to abandon the farm when he takes his lover's life, thus beginning a quintessentially American odyssey of solitude and adventure. Yearning for love, yet forced by circumstance to be always alone, Loyal comes to symbolize the alienation and frustration behind the American dream.

Postcards

Number 1542 of 2500, signed by E. Annie Proulx on front endpaper. 8vo, cloth, photo pictorial jacket.

Accordion Crimes - Limited/Numbered

Literary

Gates Garden structures -- Design and construction Driveways -- Design and construction Landscape architecture Walls Building, Stone

Plan and Make Your Own Fences & Gates, Walkways, Walls & Drives

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Rodale Press

Fine Just the Way It is - Softcoverby Annie Proulx

Fine Just the Way It Is

Contemporary

Fourth Estate

Close Range: Wyoming Stories

Page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

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Books by E. Annie PROULX

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The Shipping News

Heart Songs and Other Stories

The Shipping News

Accordion Crimes

Postcards

Accordion Crimes - Limited/Numbered

Plan and Make Your Own Fences & Gates, Walkways, Walls & Drives

Fine Just the Way It Is

Accordion Crimes

Close Range: Wyoming Stories