The Shipping News
Author: Annie Proulx
Annie Proulx’s highly acclaimed, international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. When his no-good wife is killed in a spectacular road accident, Quoyle heads for the land of his forefathers – the remotest corner of far-flung Newfoundland.With ‘the aunt’ and his delinquent daughters – Bu….Read More
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