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Description edit
When Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just deserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters and family members all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As Quoyle confronts his... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Jack Buggit: The newspaper owner and fisherman.
- Dennis Buggit: Jack 's son and a carpenter.
- Sunshine: Quoyle's younger daughter.
- Bunny: Quoyle's youngest daughter.
- Wavey: Quoyle's girlfriend.
- Warren: The Aunt's dog.
- Nutbeem: A writer at the newspaper.
- Tom: Add a description of this character.
- Herry: Wavely's son.
- Marty: Bunny's friend and Beety's son.
- Herold: Wavey's first husband.
- Alvin Yark: Wavey's uncle, a boat builder who builds a boat for Quoyle after the first boat he purchases sinks.
- Beety: Marty's father.
- Mrs. Lumbull: substitute teacher
- Burkes
- Partridge: A friend of Quoyle's from the States. He and his wife move to California, leaving Quoyle on the East Coast. He initially gets Quoyle involved in the newspaper business.
- Agnis Hamm: Quoyle's Aunt.
- Benny Fudge: One of the newspaper employees.
- Mrs. Moosup
- Ken: Wavey's brother.
- Edna
- Will
- Mrs. Mavis Bangs: Aunt's assistant in the upholstery business she opens in Killick-Claw.
- Bob
- John
- Dawn
- Nutbeern
- Sunshine: Quoyle's younger daughter
- Nolan Quoyle: A fourth cousin with a grudge" who "ties knots" against Quoyle and his family when he learns they plan to occupy the family home that has been abandoned for more than 40 years.
First Sentence edit
Here is an account of a few years in the life of Quoyle, born in Brooklyn and raised in a shuffle of dreary upstate towns.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 164 of 196 in BBC 'Big Read' Top 200 Novels, 2003. (authoritative list)
Preceded by Sunset Song, and followed by The World According to Garp.
This is book 1994 of 83 in Pulitzer Prize Winners - Fiction. (authoritative list)
Preceded by A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, and followed by The Stone Diaries.
This is book 133 of 1272 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)
Preceded by The Invention of Curried Sausage, and followed by Trainspotting.
This book is in Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. (authoritative list)
This is book 81 of 1 in Publishing Triangle's Visitors' 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Novels. (authoritative list)
This is book 95 of 214 in Best English-Language Fiction of the 20th Century. (authoritative list)
Preceded by 2001, and followed by The Naked and the Dead.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Annie Proulx (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Country: United States
Publication Date: 1993
ISBN: 0-684-19337-X
Page Count: 337
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Country: United States
Publication Date: 1993
ISBN: 0-684-19337-X
Page Count: 337
Awards edit
- Pulitzer Prize (1994: Fiction)
- BBC's Big Read (April 2003, #164)
- National Book Award (1993: Fiction)
- National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist, 1993: Fiction)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3566.R697 S4 1994b
- Dewey: 813.54
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- The Shipping News (IMDb): 2001
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