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faintgirl 's review for:
The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
The Shipping News is such an unusual book, it's an absolute delight. A wry sense of humour run throughout the small town tragedies played out by the characters to produce a novel that's incredibly hopeful. The main character is Quoyle, a lumbering ape of a man, who is forced to leave his disastrous marriage and dead end career in a local New york paper when his hideous wife is killed in a car crash. His Aunt, herself no stranger to tragedy, persuades him to return to the family home in the far north, where he discovers long disguised truths about his ancestors, and finds himself.
As an outline, the story sounds a little trite, but Annie Proulx pulls it off with such aplomb that you never notice. By the end you are so absorbed in the world of Quoyle and his strange daughters, the peculiar traditions of the region and his mysterious Aunt, that the happy ending feels absolutely deserved. Excellent!
As an outline, the story sounds a little trite, but Annie Proulx pulls it off with such aplomb that you never notice. By the end you are so absorbed in the world of Quoyle and his strange daughters, the peculiar traditions of the region and his mysterious Aunt, that the happy ending feels absolutely deserved. Excellent!