- Annie Proulx

The Shipping News: Fourth Estate 25th Anniversary edition

By Annie Proulx
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‘The Shipping News’ is one of five classic Fourth Estate books to be released as numbered, collectable editions to mark the 25th anniversary. The books will be beautifully produced hardbacks, limited to 2000 copies each, with jackets designed by some of the finest artists at work today.

Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. When his no-good wife is killed in a spectacular road accident, Quoyle heads for the land of his forefathers – the remotest corner of far-flung Newfoundland. With ‘the aunt’ and his delinquent daughters – Bunny and Sunshine – in tow, Quoyle finds himself part of an unfolding, exhilarating Atlantic drama.

‘The Shipping News’ is an irresistible comedy of human life and possibility.

Author: Annie Proulx
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 15 May 2009
Pages: 368
ISBN: 978-0-00-730881-1
Detailed Edition: Fourth Estate 25th Anniversary edition
Annie Proulx published her first novel ‘Postcards’ in 1991 at the age of 56. ‘The Shipping News’ won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the National Book Award and the Irish Times International Prize. Her third novel, ‘Accordian Crimes’, was published in 1996. She is also the author of three short-story collections, ‘Heart Songs’ (1994), ‘Close Range’ (1999) and ‘Bad Dirt’ (2004). Brokeback Mountain was made into an Oscar-winning film in 2005. ‘Fine Just the Way It Is’, her third collection of Wyoming short stories is published in 2008.

”'A very impressive achievement. So funny, so full of delights.” - Guardian

”'As stark and ruggedly beautiful as the storm-battered coast of Newfoundland itself.” - Sunday Telegraph

”'Ambitious and accomplished…The characterisation is rich, the dialogue both original and convincing.” - Alan Massie, Scotsman

”'A stunning novel.” - Observer

‘To read ‘The Shipping News’ is to yearn to be sitting in The Flying Squid Lunchstop, eating seal fin Curry, watching the icebergs clink together in the bay.’ The Times -