Some of it is cruel and nasty, most of it is harrowing but all of it is lustily entertaining. Washington Post: “And through a cast of improbably named characters (Nutbeam, Diddy Shovel, Tert Card, among many) Proulx regales us with a pandect of Newfoundland lore.Already picked himself for godfather’–but her terse prose seems perfectly at home on the rocky Newfoundland coast.”
Proulx routinely does without nouns and conjunctions–‘Quoyle, grinning. Publishers Weekly: “a moving evocation of a place and people buffeted by nature and change.“You know, the Chinese have forgotten more about sailing than the rest of the world ever knew.” ~Quotes from “T he Shipping News” by Annie Proulx See, you can be anything you want with a fresh start.” “You’ve got a chance to start out all over again. The sooner you say ‘Yes, it happened, and there’s nothing I can do about it,’ the sooner you can get on with your own life. “We face up to awful things because we can’t go around them, or forget them. Haunted by the demons of his past, he settles in the town, working to establish a home for he and his daughters. With his aunt Agnis, and his two young daughters Bunny and Sunshine, he moves to the Newfoundland coast to take up a position as reporter of the shipping news at the local paper. Quoyle has a failed marriage, and a series of failed jobs. Quirky, compelling and in parts quite comical.
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