The Shipping News

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION

‘A grand, inimitable writer’ OBSERVER

‘Heartwarming, humorous and poignant’ SUNDAY TIMES

‘One of my favourite novels’ JULIA ARMFIELD

What we have to get over, somehow we do. Even the worst things.

Quoyle has endured a life of disappointment. A failed journalist and now a failed husband, he finds himself trapped in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful woman who despises him.

When his wife is killed in a car accident, Quoyle makes the rash decision to retreat with his two daughters to their dilapidated, ancestral home on the remote island of Newfoundland. As three generations of his family cobble together new lives there amongst the unpredictable forces of nature and small town life, Quoyle confronts his private demons and is forced to chart a new course.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Shipping News is a rousing reminder of the power of second chances and the importance of finding your place in the world.

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

‘A fierce elegy for a world of weatherbeaten fishermen and cold winters’ INDEPENDENT

‘Proulx excels at portraying the huge struggles and small hopes of ordinary people’ LISSA EVANS, author of V for Victory

‘A reminder that uprooting one’s life is not only for the young and starry-eyed’ C PAM ZHANG, author of Land of Milk and Honey

About the author

Annie Proulx published her first novel ‘Postcards’ in 1991 at the age of 56. ‘The Shipping News’ won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Award and the Irish Times International Prize. Her third novel, ‘Accordion Crimes’, was published in 1996. She is also the author of three short-story collections, ‘Heart Songs’ (1994), ‘Close Range’ (1999) and ‘Bad Dirt’ (2004). ‘Brokeback Mountain’ was made into an Oscar-winning film in 2005. ‘Fine Just the Way It Is’, her third collection of Wyoming short stories, was published in 2008.