![]() ![]() At first it feels deeply comic, casting Quoyle as a hapless and pathetic figure drifting through a series of dead-end jobs and marrying a psychopath. ![]() The Shipping News is a bit of a weird novel. ![]() Settling into a new job as a reporter for the local paper in the fictional village of Killick-Claw, he gradually grows to feel at peace on this harsh, wintry island. Heartbroken from the death of his wife and at a loss as to what to do with himself, protagonist Quoyle (I don’t think we ever learn his first name) relocates himself and his daughters to his family’s ancestral home in Newfoundland. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx (1993) 337 p.Īnnie Proulx is these days probably best known for being the author of Brokeback Mountain, the short story which inspired the film, but her original famous work was The Shipping News, which won the Pulitzer in ’94. ![]()
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