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E. Annie Proulx wowed the literary world with her novel The Shipping News, winning the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the National Book Award among other honors. In its best-selling audio incarnation, read by Robert Joy, it's a winner again. At 36, Quoyle is a third-rate newspaperman, "bereft, brimming with grief and thwarted love." Accompanied by his maiden aunt and his two young daughters, he moves to Newfoundland, "the rock that had generated his ancestors," and away from a dreary, desolate existence. Proulx's prose is fresh and vivid as she follows her unlikely hero, a shambling, soft, "great damp loaf of a man," trying desperately not to fail his children and himself, to a newfound life.
Sukey Howard reports on spoken word audio each month. She can be reached at sukey_howard@bookpage.com.
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