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A review by drrags
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
5.0
Liked the movie - Loved the book.
As the jacket cover states it is "darkly comic," exposing, at times, the darkest underside of human nature. The uplifting ending while not surprising is definitely not formulistic.
Proulx has interesting descriptive style that is both flowery and wordy but which never approaches cloying.
Here is a good example: "The North tilted to the sun. As the light unfolded, a milky patina of phytoplankton bloomed over the offshore banks along the collision line of the salt Gulf Stream and the brack Labrador current. The water crosshatched in complex layers of arctic and tropic, waves foamed with bacteria, yeast, daitoms, fungi, algae, bubbles and droplets, the stuff of life, urging growth, change, coupling.
To Roy
As the jacket cover states it is "darkly comic," exposing, at times, the darkest underside of human nature. The uplifting ending while not surprising is definitely not formulistic.
Proulx has interesting descriptive style that is both flowery and wordy but which never approaches cloying.
Here is a good example: "The North tilted to the sun. As the light unfolded, a milky patina of phytoplankton bloomed over the offshore banks along the collision line of the salt Gulf Stream and the brack Labrador current. The water crosshatched in complex layers of arctic and tropic, waves foamed with bacteria, yeast, daitoms, fungi, algae, bubbles and droplets, the stuff of life, urging growth, change, coupling.
To Roy