Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family, and "a rare creation, a lyric page-turner" (Chicago Tribune).
At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman is wrenched violently out of his world when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters all play a part in Quoyle’s struggle to reclaim his life. As three generations of his family cobble up new lives, Quoyle confronts his private demons—and the unpredictable forces of nature and society—and begins to see the possibility of love without pain or misery.
The Shipping News “is charged with sardonic wit—alive, funny, a little threatening: packed with brilliantly original images…and now and then, a sentence that simply takes your breath away” (USA TODAY).
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Chapter 1: Quoyle
- Chapter 2: Love Knot
- Chapter 3: Strangle Knot
- Chapter 4: Cast Away
- Chapter 5: A Rolling Hitch
- Chapter 6: Between Ships
- Chapter 7: The Gammy Bird
- Chapter 8: A Slippery Hitch
- Chapter 9: The Mooring Hitch
- Chapter 10: The Voyage of Nutbeem
- Chapter 11: A Breastpin of Human Hair
- Chapter 12: The Stern Wave
- Chapter 13: The Dutch Cringle
- Chapter 14: Wavey
- Chapter 15: The Upholstery Shop
- Chapter 16: Beetyâs Kitchen
- Chapter 17: The Shipping News
- Chapter 18: Lobster Pie
- Chapter 19: Good-bye, Buddy
- Chapter 20: Gaze Island
- Chapter 21: Poetic Navigation
- Chapter 22: Dogs and Cats
- Chapter 23: Maleficium
- Chapter 24: Berry Picking
- Chapter 25: Oil
- Chapter 26: Deadman
- Chapter 27: Newsroom
- Chapter 28: The Skaterâs Chain Grip
- Chapter 29: Alvin Yark
- Chapter 30: The Sun Clouded Over
- Chapter 31: Sometimes You Just Lose It
- Chapter 32: The Hairy Devil
- Chapter 33: The Cousin
- Chapter 34: Dressing Up
- Chapter 35: The Dayâs Work
- Chapter 36: Straitjacket
- Chapter 37: Slingstones
- Chapter 38: The Sled Dog Driverâs Dream
- Chapter 39: Shining Hubcaps
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright
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