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Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness
This novel had its birth in a death - that of the author's closest friend
before eventually finding her feet and salvaging a fierce independence from her solitude
poignant and memorable as it was when first published
But Sarah had always lived through her books
The Shipping News Howard Pyle Behind the cranky exterior thereAuthor: Proulx Annie ISBN: 9780684857916 Format: Hardback Publisher: Scribner 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