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The shipping news, Annie Proulx

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The shipping news

Annie Proulx

Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters to return with her to the starkly beautiful coastal landscape of their ancestral home in Newfoundland

Quoyle -- Love knot -- Strangle knot -- Cast away -- A rolling hitch -- Between ships -- The gammy bird -- A slipper hitch -- The mooring hitch -- The voyage of Nutbeem -- A breastpin of human hair -- The stern wave -- The Dutch cringle -- Wavey -- The upholstery shop -- Beety's kitchen -- The shipping news -- Lobster pie -- Good-bye, buddy -- Gaze Island -- Poetic navigation -- Dog and cats -- Maleficium -- Berry picking -- Oil -- Deadman -- Newsroom -- The skater's chain grip -- Alvin Yark -- The sun clouded over -- Sometimes you just lose it -- The hairy devil -- The cousin -- Dressing up -- The day's work -- Straitjacket -- Slingstones -- The sled dog driver's dream -- Shining hubcaps