||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Worth Sticking With|By W. Brown|At first you hate all of the characters. If you persevere, they grow on you and you realize that you do care about them and what happens to them. They are quirky, flawed, and, at bottom, real human beings. Proulx's prose style also takes some adjusting, but the rhythm of her writing is akin to poetry, and her similes are original and spot on.|1|.com |In this touching and atmospheric novel set among the fishermen of Newfoundland, Proulx tells the story of Quoyle. From all outward appearances, Quoyle has gone through his first 36 years on earth as a big schlump of a loser. He's not attractive, he's not
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 em...
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