The shipping news
(Audio CD)
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Published:
New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, [1995].
Format:
Audio CD
ISBN:
0743519795 :
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Description
In The Shipping News E. Annie Proulx departs from the darkly fated heroes of Heart Songs and Postcards to explore the cracked-up contemporary American family. Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a "head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair ... features as bunched as kissed fingertips," is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just deserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters to return with her to the starkly beautiful coastal landscape of their ancestral home in Newfoundland. Here, on desolate Quoyle's Point, in a house empty except for a few momentoes of the family's unsavory past, the battered members of three generations try to cobble up new lives. Newfoundland is a country of coast and cove where the mercury rarely rises above 70 degrees, the local culinary delicacy is cod cheeks, and it's easier to travel by boat and snowmobile than on anything with wheels. In this harsh place of cruel storms, a collapsing fishery, and chronic unemployment, the aunt sets up as a yacht upholsterer in nearby Killick-Claw, and Quoyle finds a job reporting the shipping news for the local weekly, the Gammy Bird (a paper that specializes in sexual-abuse stories and grisly photos of car accidents). As the long winter closes its jaws of ice, each of the Quoyles confronts private demons, reels from catastrophe to minor triumph - in the company of the obsequious Mavis Bangs; Diddy Shovel the strongman; drowned Herald Prowse; cane-twirling Beety; Nutbeem, who steals foreign news from the radio; a demented cousin the aunt refuses to recognize; the much-zippered Alvin Yark; silent Wavey; and old Billy Pretty, with his bag of secrets. By the time of the spring storms Quoyle has learned how to gut cod, to escape from a pickle jar, and to tie a true lover's knot. By turns comic and dark, The Shipping News is a celebration of the American genius for storytelling and of E. Annie Proulx's vigorous contribution to the art, and magic, of the contemporary novel.
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Physical Desc:
5 audio discs (approximately 5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language:
English
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 4.8, 16 Points
Level 4.8, 16 Points
Lexile measure:
730
Notes
General Note
Abridged.
Participants/Performers
Read by Robert Joy.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
Proulx, A., & Joy, R. (1995). The shipping news. New York, Simon & Schuster Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Proulx, Annie and Robert. Joy. 1995. The Shipping News. New York, Simon & Schuster Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Proulx, Annie and Robert. Joy, The Shipping News. New York, Simon & Schuster Audio, 1995.
MLA Citation (style guide)Proulx, Annie. and Robert Joy. The Shipping News. New York, Simon & Schuster Audio, 1995.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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