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 The Shipping News is stark and affecting. Proulx's story is about Quoyle, betrayed then widowed, looking to remake a life with his two daughters on the Newfoundland coast. He finds resurrection, and the hope for love "without pain or misery." Shipping News won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and universal praise. It was all deserved. "Diddy Shovel, the harbormaster, watched Quoyle's yellow slicker emerge from the station wagon, watched him drop his notepad on the wet cobbles. Sized him up as stong and clumsy. Shovel had been renowned once for his great physical strength. When he was twenty he started a curious brotherhood called "The Finger Club." The seven members were all men who could suspend themselves from a beam in Eddy Blunt's cellar by a single little finger. Powerful men in those days. As he grew older, he complemented, then replaced, his physical strength with a stentorian voice. Was now the only living member of the Finger Club. His thoughts often stopped at that point."  Paperback 337 pages - 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" - (7/94)
ZT0053 The Shipping News $16.00
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