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The Shipping News

by: Annie Proulx (author)

Alternate cover for ISBN 0671510053At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich... show more

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Format: Paperback

Publisher: Scribner

Pages no: 337

Edition language: English

Category:

Classics, Novels, Literature, Cultural, Book Club, Adult Fiction, American, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Modern, Canada

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Calyre rated it

7 years ago

http://calyre.booklikes.com Calyre 1.0

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Quoyle restait incapable de saisir l'actualité, n'avait aucun sens du détail. Il avait peur de tout, à l'exception d'une quinzaine de verbes. Avec un instinct fatal pour l'utilisation erronée du passif.

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A Scottish-Canadian Blethering On About Books rated it

7 years ago

http://surreysmum.booklikes.com A Scottish-Canadian Blethering On About Books 4.0 The Shipping News (Proulx)

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"Outside, an hour later, Quoyle at his fire, the aunt taking things out of the food box; eggs, a crushed bag of bread, butter, jam. Sunshine crowded against the aunt, her hands following, seizing packets. The child unwrapped the butter, the aunt spread it with a piece of broken wood for a knife, sti...

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Pablos czytelnik rated it

10 years ago

http://pablos.booklikes.com Pablos czytelnik 3.5 Annie Proulx - "Kroniki portowe"

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Uwielbiam ten film. Widziałem kilka razy, nawet kupiłem swoją kopię na DVD, która potem zaginęła gdzieś u kogoś, kto pożyczył i nie zwrócił. Ale nie wiedziałem, że scenariusz powstał na podstawie książki. Oczywiście musiałem ją przeczytać. A to nie koniec szokujących wiadomości ;) - Annie Proulx jes...

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