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1993 novel by E. Annie Proulx

For the indie rock band, see Shipping News. For the film, see The Shipping News (film).

The Shipping News is a novel by American author E.

Annie Proulx and published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1993. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction,^[1] the U.S. National Book Award, as well as other awards.^[2] It was adapted as a film of the same name which was released in 2001.

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Plot summary

The story revolves around Quoyle, a newspaper reporter from upstate New York, whose father had emigrated from Newfoundland. Quoyle's distant parents have recently committed suicide, and his estranged wife, Petal has died in a car accident with another man.

As a result Quoyle decides to relocate his two young girls to their ancestral home in Newfoundland. His paternal aunt, Agnis Hamm, convinces him to make a new beginning and they move into Agnis's childhood home, an empty and abandoned house on Quoyle's Point.

Quoyle finds