Shipping News by Annie Proulx Language:English aged bourbon

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With effortless grace

and rituals conjured from the past to meet the needs of a troubled present—to keep them whole in a world that seemed bent on their destruction

Sullivan looks deep into the largely unrecorded history of the city and its masses-its herds-of-rats-like mob

they are not pleased to have an unexpected passenger along on their classified mission

Shipping News by Annie Proulx Language:English aged bourbon[Scribner] Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family, and "a rare creation, a lyric page turner" (Chicago Tribune). At thirty six, Quoyle, a third rate newspaperman is wrenched violently out of his world when his two timing wife meets her just desserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland