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thomas_edmund 's review for:
The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
The Shipping News is a very strange read - its very hard to summarize in a way that is spoiler free but also useful. The story follows 'Quoyle' (a type of rope that is positioned to be walked over).
Quoyle is a deceptively simple lad who daydreams his way through life until a series of tragedies find him travelling to New Foundland to raise his daughters and make a a life for himself.
There is a very strange narrative structure in my opinion, where the initial scenes and final scenes are quite concrete and vivid. As the story progresses you get a strange blurring (in my opinion) this matches the strange blurring of life for Quoyle and makes a lot of literary sense.
Dramas aside I really found this book made me want to give on an isolated lighthouse island in the middle of nowhere - its quite a strange journey of a book but really intriguing and quite enjoyable nonetheless.
Quoyle is a deceptively simple lad who daydreams his way through life until a series of tragedies find him travelling to New Foundland to raise his daughters and make a a life for himself.
There is a very strange narrative structure in my opinion, where the initial scenes and final scenes are quite concrete and vivid. As the story progresses you get a strange blurring (in my opinion) this matches the strange blurring of life for Quoyle and makes a lot of literary sense.
Dramas aside I really found this book made me want to give on an isolated lighthouse island in the middle of nowhere - its quite a strange journey of a book but really intriguing and quite enjoyable nonetheless.