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.
An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters to return with he.
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.
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