- Domestic fiction, Family, Fiction, American literature
At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just deserts. 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.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Annie Proulx
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 345
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons, imusti, Scribner Classics
- Editions
- 57
- Language
- Chinese, German, Spanish, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9780684193373
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Edna Ann Proulx is an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. She has written most frequently as Annie Proulx but has also used the names E. Annie Proulx and E.A. Proulx. She won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her first novel, Postcards, making her the first woman to receive the prize. Her second novel, The Shipping News (1993), won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and was adapted as a 2001 film of the same name. Her short story "Brokeback Mountain" was adapted as an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award-winning motion picture released in 2005.
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